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I don't understand why base R silently converting integers into characters is seen as a positive? Especially coupled with the comment "In R there's rarely any u

I don't understand why base R silently converting integers into characters is seen as a positive? Especially coupled with the comment "In R there's rarely any uncertainty when loading genomic data", surely this just increases uncertainty?

mtekman 3y ago
because the vector contains characters, so clearly it encodes categorical data and not numeric