Ingolfsson, Olafur wrote:
"Sixten Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When I use these as variable names in a data.frame, odd things happen:
data.frame(a=1, �=2, �=3, �=4) a � � X. 1 1 2 3 4
---- I your variables only include numbers (or only characters), this works
XX <- cbind(a=1, �=2, �=3, �=4, �=5, �=6)
XX
a � � � � � [1,] 1 2 3 4 5 6 But this doesn't
data.frame(XX)
a � � X. X� X. 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
i.e. it is the data.frame function that manages to mess up the variable names for us Windows users
No, it is related to your Windows setting / version.
I still get
> data.frame(XX) a � � � � � 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
using the german locales (german version of WinNT 4.0 SP6, R-1.9.1).
Uwe Ligges
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