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

[Roger Koenker]

Thanks again, options(useFancyQuotes = FALSE)  works perfectly!

Roger

On Oct 31, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote:
>
>>
>> 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)
>
> Oops, you want FALSE to suppress it: TRUE is the default.
>
>>> 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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>>> -- 
>>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
>>> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
>>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>>
>
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595