correct ordered factor definition #1686
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Following discussion in hadley#1122 , clarifying that ordered factors do not behave like numbers.
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To clarify, this PR attempts to correct the obvious errors: the definition and the typo. I kept the more opinionated part discouraging people from using ordered factors, even if I don't really agree with it and they are quite important at least in the social sciences (and ecology to a lesser extent). In my experience with ecological data, they're used less often than they should, with people just treating these as either numeric variables or regular factors to avoid the use of more complicated models. |
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Following discussion in #1122 , clarifies that ordered factors do not behave like numbers.