[Rd] Locale problems with too-fancy quotes in Windows CMD.exe

[Martin Morgan]

Yes, sorry about the divination. FWIW I've seen another report of this
(in passing, while addressing another issue) on the Bioconductor
mailing list, and suspect that US users (and others?) will frequently
be perplexed, perhaps spending significant time trying to track down
how the 'wrong' data got into R.

Doing

c:\> chcp 1252
Active code page: 1252

Allows smart quotes to display correctly.

Thanks,

Martin

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Martin Morgan wrote:
>
>> 'Fancy' quotes are displayed incorrectly when running R from Windows'
>> CMD shell (Start -> Run -> CMD; latin small letter ae and capital
>> letter AE; as a script or interactively)). Is this a system
>> configuration issue, and if so how can I correct it?
>
> Yes, use chcp in the terminal or use options(fancyQuotes=FALSE) in R.
>
> Since you are I suppose (I am for some reason supposed to be able to
> divine, as you don't say and nor does your email address) in the USA,
> chcp 1252 is probably what you need.  Ask Microsoft why it sets up
> terminals in a different codepage from the Windows' session running:
> it baffles many people.
>
>>
>> C:\R>Rscript -e sQuote('x')
>> [1] "æxÆ"
>>
>> C:\R>R --version
>> R version 2.6.0 beta (2007-09-20 r42920)
>> Copyright (C) 2007 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>
>> Windows is XP 2002 SP2
>>
>
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