On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ingolfsson, Olafur wrote:
> "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)
Ingolfsson, Olafur wrote:
"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
"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
"Sixten Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I upgraded from R 1.8.1 to 1.9.0 (Windows XP), and spotted an odd thing.
>
> The last three letters in the Swedish alphabet are å, ä and ö. (In case they don't
> show correctly: they are a with a ring, a with two dots, and o with two do
This is a function of the OS set by your locale, and there is nothing we
can do about it. It is done by the C call isalpha in do_makenames in
src/main/character.c.
My Windows XP machine in Swedish does accept all three, using the
CRAN-compiled version of rw1091.exe, so something is up with yours
