Thanks Simon! I can reproduce this on Linux now, too. locale -a didn't show en_US.iso88591 for me so I needed 'sudo locale-gen en_US' first. Then running R with $ LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1" R is enough to reproduce the problem.
Karl - can you use tabulate instead as Simon suggests? Matthew -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/match-function-causing-bad-performance-when-using-table-function-on-factors-with-multibyte-characters-tp3229526p3237228.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel