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glimpse confuses factors with commas in levels #384
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I suspect it's a rare case, but because glimpse doesn't quote factors like it does strings, if the factor level has a comma in it, it looks like they're two observations, e.g.
library(tibble)
glimpse(
tibble(x = factor(c('foo, bar', 'baz')),
y = factor(c('hello, world', 'howdy'), ordered = TRUE),
z = c('foo, bar', 'baz'))
)
#> Observations: 2
#> Variables: 3
#> $ x <fct> foo, bar, baz
#> $ y <ord> hello, world, howdy
#> $ z <chr> "foo, bar", "baz"The evident solution would be to quote levels. Factors would be less differentiable from strings, though no worse than integers that happen to be stored as doubles, e.g. mtcars$gear.
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anhqle commentedon Feb 28, 2018
@krlmlr what's your take on quoting factor levels (i.e. with
"level")? Or perhaps quote using backticks?krlmlr commentedon Mar 1, 2018
I think we should use regular quotes here.
Add quotes around factor levels. Close tidyverse#384.
Add quotes around factor levels. Close tidyverse#384.
Merge pull request #389 from anhqle/384-add-quote-for-factor-in-glimpse
github-actions commentedon Dec 11, 2020
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