[BioC] Basic question reading special chars using read.table

[David martin]

The Header file (no quotes in the file):
########
Gene    Coli-r1 1ug-r1  1ug-r2  Blank-r1
....	....	...	...	...

####reading the file
t = read.table(file="file.txt",header=TRUE)
colnames(t)

[1] "Gene"     "Coli.r1"  "X1ug.r1"  "X1ug.r2"  "X1ug.r3"   "Blank.r1"

As you can see the colname starting with a number are not treated as i 
expected. An "X" is added ??? Also the "µ" is not handled properly, i 
have replaced it with "u" in my example ???

How come that the names of the columns are changed ??? how to avoid that ???


thanks for any help!

david