[ESS] How to avoid garbled characters in output with noweb-mode

Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu
Mon Feb 2 19:22:03 CET 2009


On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Susumu Tanimura <aruminat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Richard, Martin, Douglas Bates, and Douglas,
>
> Thank you very much for suggestions. I did not know useFancyQuotes nor
> show.signif.stars opetions in R. I have not used
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} so far because I wonder the compatibility
> with Japanese pTeX system. A quick trail of
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in euc-jp encoded Rnw source file did not
> give me an error. But I may need to check in detail.
>
>> options(show.signif.codes = FALSE)
> I guess s/codes/stars/.

Indeed.  Thanks for the correction.

>
> --
> Susumu
>
>> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Martin Maechler
>> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> >>>>>> "RMH" == Richard M Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu>
>> >>>>>>     on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:05:18 -0500 writes:
>> >
>> >    RMH> I think the easiest way is use the R option
>> >    RMH> options(useFancyQuotes=FALSE)
>> >
>> >    RMH> to tell R to use "'" and not "'" and "'"
>> >
>> > yes (where the "not .. and .. " really should contain Unicode (UTF-8)
>> > backquotes and forward quotes.
>> >
>> > An alternative that I have not tested for this specific case,
>> > but we have been using when working with German umlauts, French
>> > accents, etc is to allow LaTeX to work automatically with
>> > (many/most) unicode characters *in*  the *.tex file :
>> >
>> > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>> >
>> > in the preamble of your *.tex / *.Rnw document.
>>
>> Yet another possibility is to specify in the R
>>
>> options(show.signif.codes = FALSE)
>>
>> which some of us do all the time because we find those "stars" to be
>> objectionable.  Those who want stars on their p-values should be
>> required to buy SPSS. :-)
>
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