[Rd] Rd and guillemots

[Prof Brian Ripley]

There are two instances of this.  If I add 'go' to both it works for me.
I guess you only had the first one (the second is used here).

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 9/15/2005 7:51 PM, Mark.Bravington at csiro.au wrote:
>> First of all, thanks to those who've set up R to work so smoothly with
>> Miktex-- even a total Latex bunny like me got it to work instantly, so
>> that for the first time I'm able to run my Rd files through the Latex
>> side of RCMD CHECK.
>>
>> Now the question/buglet. One of my Rd files contains the following:
>>
>> \code{mlazy( <<objname1>>, <<objname2>>, <<etc>>)}
>>
>> When I run the file through RCMD (either RCMD CHECK or Rcmd Rd2dvi
>> --pdf) the first << and >> are left alone, but the second and third
>> pairs are converted to single guillemot characters (i.e. European
>> quotation marks). This inconsistency seems a bit odd.
>
> Yes, this is the tex that gets output:
>
> \code{mlazy( <{}<objname1>{}>, <<objname2>>, <<etc>>)}
>
> This seems to happen in Rdconv.pm, around here:
>
>     ## avoid conversion to guillemots
>     $c =~ s/<</<\{\}</;
>     $c =~ s/>>/>\{\}>/;
>
>
> But I don't know enough Perl syntax to tell it to replace all << by
> <{}<, instead of just the first.  (I would have guessed appending a g
> would work, but didn't in a quick test, i.e. $c =~ s/<</<\{\}</g; didn't
> work.)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> Also, is there any way of getting RCMD to leave << and >> alone-- i.e.
>> not to guillemotize them? They cause unrecognized characters on my
>> (Windows XP, newly-installed Miktex, R-alpha of 10/9/2005) system when I
>> run the dvi files through dvips.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mark Bravington
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