[Rd] quoted strings in foo.Rd rendered as â

[Roger Koenker]

On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> First step to check: update to a released version of R 2.10.0!
I see the same behavior with:
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.0

>
> If that does not help, using options(useFancyQuotes = TRUE) in the  
> released version should (but possibly not as far back as your alpha  
> pre-release).

And also with options(useFancyQuotes = TRUE)
>
> I suspect that whatever you mean my 'my X11 window' (it is the  
> application running in the window that matters, perhaps an xterm?)  
> it is set to the wrong character set.  I simply use a Mac terminal  
> window, and that ought to default to UTF-8 (but it can be changed,  
> so check if you try one).
Yes,  I did mean xterm, and yes in a mac terminal window I do get  
correct rendering, so
maybe I should just give up on xterm entirely, but old habits die hard.
>
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote:
>
>> Another anomaly from our rhel5 system, again sessionInfo() below.
>> When I'm logged in remotely via ssh from my macpro and view  
>> documentation
>> files in my X11 window,  strings in single quotes in the files are  
>> all
>> abbreviated as â .   The same files appear fine when rendered in X11
>> using the local R,  and also appear fine in a terminal window on the
>> linux machine, so this could easily also be some sort of ssh/X11  
>> issue
>> not R at all, but if someone had any suggestion for further checking
>> it would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012)
>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>> [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets   
>> methods
>> [8] base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42   SparseM_0.80
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.10.0
>>
>>
>> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
>> email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
>> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
>> fax:       217-244-6678                Urbana, IL 61801
>>
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