[mtekman]

There's also this new Gem:

https://mstdn.science/@mtekman/111964030735312859

[_Wintermute]

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]

because the vector contains characters, so clearly it encodes categorical data and not numeric