Message-ID: <001601c4d6dc$ca21d2e0$e502eb82@hblaptop>
Date: 2004-11-30T13:01:55Z
From: Henrik Bengtsson
Subject: How to know if a bug was recognised
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20041130132443.007a2a30@pop.gmx.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Heinz Tuechler
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:25 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] How to know if a bug was recognised
>
>
> Hello!
>
> A problem with special characters seemed to me to be a bug. I
> sent a mail to R-windows at r-project.org concerning the problem
> (see below). How can I find out, if this is considered as a
> bug or an error of myself? Which part of FAQs or
> documentation did I miss to find the answer?
This will not answer your question on what is a bug or not, but if you don't
know, the "R team" has kindly made a fix for this problem. What I remember
from an earlier thread, this was not really due to R, but to Windows. For
the latest R v2.0.1 patch it now seems to work as before/expected:
R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Version 2.0.1 Patched (2004-11-27), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> "??"
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Cheers
Henrik Bengtsson
> thanks in advance
>
> Heinz T??chler
>
> -------------------- copy of abovementioned mail ----------
> to: R-windows at r-project.org
> subject: problem with special characters (??,??,??)
> Dear Developers!
>
> Using special characters I found a strange behaviour in R
> 2.0.1 and equally in
> R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical
> Computing Version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
> Operating System: Windows 98SE
>
> example:
> factor1<-as.factor(c("weiblich","m??nnlich","??sterreichisch","f
> r??hreif","Gru??
> "))
> factor1
> > factor1
> [1] weiblich m\344nnlich \366sterreichisch
> fr\374hreif
>
> [5] Gru\337
> Levels: fr??hreif Gru?? m??nnlich ??sterreichisch weiblich
>
> with best wishes
>
> Heinz T??chler
>
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