Here's my osx data/session info (identical after a re-install):

> class(eurodist)
[1] "data.frame"
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>

-Justin



On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson@ucl.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:26 -0400, Justin Donaldson wrote:
> > The eurodist dataset (my favorite for mds) is malformed.  Instead of a
> > standard distance matrix, it's a data frame.  The rownames have gotten
> > 'bumped' to a new anonymous dimension "X".   It's possible to fix the
> data,
> > but it messes up a lot of example code out there.
> >
> >           X Athens Barcelona Brussels Calais ...
> > 1    Athens      0      3313     2963   3175
> > 2 Barcelona   3313         0     1318   1326
> > 3  Brussels   2963      1318        0    204
> > 4    Calais   3175      1326      204      0
> > 5 Cherbourg   3339      1294      583    460
> > 6   Cologne   2762      1498      206    409
> > ...
> >
> > Best,
> > -Justin
>
> What version of R, platform, loaded packages etc? This is not what I see
> on Linux, 2.9.1-patched r49104.
>
> > class(eurodist)
> [1] "dist"
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.9.1 Patched (2009-08-07 r49104)
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
>
> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;
> LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;
> LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.9.1
>
> Have you tried this in a clean session to see if it persists there?
>
> If you can reproduce this in a clean session with an up-to-date R or
> R-Devel then send details of your R back to the list for further
> investigation.
>
> HTH
>
> G
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Justin Donaldson
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Indiana University
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