Well at a minimum V4 and V6 (used in lm()) are not the same in these two 
data sets.  Not sure why but there it is.

Brian

Brian S. Cade

U. S. Geological Survey
Fort Collins Science Center
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Below is direct copy from command terminals of both pcs (mandrake 92
with r 171; mandriva 2008 with r 251, respectively).

R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.7.1  (2003-06-16)

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> dubious<-read.table('/path/to/file/dodgy.csv')
> dubious

  V1  V2    V3    V4    V5       V6     V7
1  1 300 39.87 39.85 39.90 39.87333  90000
2  2 400 45.16 45.23 45.17 45.18667 160000
3  3 500 50.72 51.03 50.90 50.88333 250000
4  4 600 56.85 56.80 57.02 56.89000 360000
5  5 700 63.01 63.09 63.14 63.08000 490000
6  6 800 69.52 69.82 69.63 69.65667 640000
>
> lm(V6~V2+V7,data=dubious)

Call:
lm(formula = V6 ~ V2 + V7, data = dubious)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)           V2           V7
  2.553e+01    4.332e-02    1.480e-05

>

R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
Copyright (C) 2007 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

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You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
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> dubious<-read.table('/path/to/file/dodgy.csv')
> dubious
  V1  V2    V3    V4    V5       V6     V7
1  1 300 39.87 39.85 39.90 39.87333  90000
2  2 400 45.16 45.23 45.17 45.18667 160000
3  3 500 50.72 51.03 50.90 50.88333 250000
4  4 600 56.85 56.80 57.02 56.89000 360000
5  5 700 63.01 63.09 63.14 63.08000 490000
6  6 800 69.52 59.68 69.63 66.27667 640000
> lm(V6~V2+V7,data=dubious)

Call:
lm(formula = V6 ~ V2 + V7, data = dubious)

Coefficients:
(Intercept)           V2           V7
  1.937e+01    7.168e-02   -1.537e-05

>

Below is the csv file itself:

1 300 39.87 39.85 39.90 39.87333  90000
2 400 45.16 45.23 45.17 45.18667 160000
3 500 50.72 51.03 50.90 50.88333 250000
4 600 56.85 56.80 57.02 56.89000 360000
5 700 63.01 63.09 63.14 63.08000 490000
6 800 69.52 59.68 69.63 66.27667 640000

Enjoy! :)

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