Please see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-November/060119.html
for the explanation and solution (2.0.1 patched) regarding this Windows
infelicity. Try 2.0.1 patched, and see if it resolves your problem.
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Latin 1 characters are handled correctly by many R functions, but print()
> behaves unpredictably in this respect. Using ten Icelandic characters as
> an example:
>
> ICE <- c("Á", "Ð", "É", "Í", "Ó", "Ú", "Ý", "Þ", "Æ", "Ö")
> # or, in case of browser problems
> ICE <- c("\301", "\320", "\311", "\315", "\323",
> "\332", "\335", "\336", "\306", "\326")
> ice <- tolower(ICE)
>
> cat(ICE, "\n") # correct
> cat(ice, "\n") # correct
> ICE # some octal codes
> ice # some octal codes
> data.frame(ICE, ice) # some octal codes
>
> It would be preferable if the characters in that last data frame were
> human-readable. This bug was not present in R 1.9.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Arni
>
> R 2.0.1 on WinXP
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