> * stringsAsFactors = FALSE is now default breaking a lot of packages (was this really worth changing?) In my experience, both when I learned R myself back in

> * stringsAsFactors = FALSE is now default breaking a lot of packages (was this really worth changing?) In my experience, both when I learned R myself back in the day, and teaching others to use it, this is something that trips up newbies over and over again. So from that perspective changing it is good. OTOH, a lot of existing code will need updating. Oh well..