[I tried to send this message privately, but the return address bounced.] 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