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extend factor versus character

Open pitakakariki opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Should probably treat character variables as factors.

e.g. "a" "b" "c" should extend to "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" not "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6".

pitakakariki avatar Sep 08 '16 03:09 pitakakariki

Related: https://github.com/pitakakariki/simr/issues/187

pitakakariki avatar Jul 02 '21 03:07 pitakakariki

Annoying if e.g. "a" "b" c" becomes "1" "2" ... "9" "10" since "9" sorts later than "10" giving weird output for powerCurve.

Should also change powerCurve output for character and factor to e.g. "number of ______" since generated extended labels aren't necessarily meaningful to the user.

pitakakariki avatar Jul 02 '24 19:07 pitakakariki