"Sixten Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When I use these as variable names in a data.frame, odd things happen: > data.frame(a=1, å=2, ä=3, ö=4) > a å ä X. > 1 1 2 3 4 ---- I your variables only include numbers (or only characters), this works
XX <- cbind(a=1, å=2, ä=3, ö=4, æ=5, ø=6) > XX a å ä ö æ ø [1,] 1 2 3 4 5 6 But this doesn't > data.frame(XX) a å ä X. Xæ 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 ______________________________________________ [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