Message-ID: <l64pq01252g98aki53brfihdfipa96drg5@4ax.com>
Date: 2004-11-30T15:27:01Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Attn Heinz Tuechler: Re: problem with special characters (ä,ö,ü)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20041127233123.00794d20@pop.gmx.net>
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I think this has been fixed in R-patched, but I doubt if the fix has
been tested in Win98. Could you please download a copy from
<http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html> and confirm
that it has been fixed?
Duncan Murdoch
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:31:23 +0100, Heinz Tuechler <tuechler at gmx.at>
wrote :
>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","fr??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