On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, 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 your OS that is at fault, plus the user who did not think to use check.names=FALSE to work around the problems of his machine. Can we stop blaming R for things which are not its fault, especially as that has already been pointed out twice this morning? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
