[R] Attn Heinz Tuechler: Re: problem with sp ecial characters ( ä,ö,ü)

[Heinz Tuechler]

At 10:27 30.11.2004 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>[I tried to send this message privately, but the return address
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>
>I think this has been fixed in R-patched, but I doubt if the fix has
>been tested in Win98.  Could you please download a copy from
><http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html> and confirm
>that it has been fixed?
>
>Duncan Murdoch
>
Now I installed the version 2.0.1 Patched (2004-11-27) and it works well.
The bug, which is, as I have learned, not a bug of R but of Win98, does not
appeare any more. Many thanks to those who helped me to cope with one bug
of windows.

Heinz Tüchler

>On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:31:23 +0100, Heinz Tuechler <tuechler at gmx.at>
>wrote :
>
>>Dear Developers!
>>
>>Using special characters I found a strange behaviour in R 2.0.1 and equally
>>in 
>>R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>Version 2.0.1  (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>
>>Operating System: Windows 98SE
>>
>>example:
>>factor1<-as.factor(c("weiblich","männlich","österreichisch","frühreif","Gruß
>>"))
>>factor1
>>> factor1
>>[1] weiblich           m\344nnlich        \366sterreichisch  fr\374hreif
>>   
>>[5] Gru\337           
>>Levels: frühreif Gruß männlich österreichisch weiblich
>>
>>with best wishes
>>
>>Heinz Tüchler
>
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