[Rd] Typo [Was: Rd and guillemots]

(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk
Fri Sep 16 23:51:24 CEST 2005


On 16-Sep-05 Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> [...]
> This seems to happen in Rdconv.pm, around here:
> 
>      ## avoid conversion to guillemots
>      $c =~ s/<</<\{\}</;
>      $c =~ s/>>/>\{\}>/;

The name of the "continental" quotation mark « is "guillemet".

The R Development Core Team must have had some bird on the brain
at the time ...

Ted.



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