文章基本信息
- 标题：Programmer’s Niche
- 本地全文：下载
- 作者：Thomas Lumley
- 期刊名称：R News
- 印刷版ISSN：1609-3631
- 出版年度：2003
- 卷号：3
- 期号：3
- 页码：40
- 出版社：The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
- 摘要：Character strings occupy an unusual position in R. They are treated as atomic types—little bits of string — by all the subscripting functions. On the other hand, in most cases where the programmer really is treating strings as atomic objects it would be better to use factors instead.
