How to know if a bug was recognised

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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