[Rd] unicode in R documentation

[Sebastian Meyer]

Am 13.07.21 um 17:37 schrieb Frederick Eaton:
> Dear R Team,
> 
> I am running R from the terminal command line (not RStudio). I've 
> noticed that R has been using Unicode quotes in its documentation for 
> some time, maybe since before I started using it.
> 
> I am wondering if it is possible to compile the documentation to use 
> normal quotes instead.


Not sure if this is more of an R-help topic. I use

     options(useFancyQuotes = FALSE)

in my .Rprofile.

Best regards,

	Sebastian


> I find it useful to be able to search documentation for strings with 
> quotes, for example when reading "?options" I might search for "'dev" to 
> find an option starting with the letters "dev". Without the single-quote 
> at the front, there would be a lot of matches that I'm not interested 
> in, but the single-quote at the front helps narrow it down to the 
> parameters that are being indexed in the documentation. However, I can't 
> actually search for "'dev" in "?options" because it is written with 
> curly quotes "‘device’" and "'" does not match "‘" on my machine.
> 
> Similarly, when I read manual pages for commands on Linux, I sometimes 
> search for "-r" instead of "r" because "-r" is likely to find 
> documentation for the option "-r", while searching for "r" will match 
> almost every line.
> 
> I'm wondering what other people do when reading through documentation. 
> Do you search for things at all or just read it straight through? Is 
> there a hyperlinked version that just lets you jump to the "device" 
> entry in "?options" or do you have to type out a search string? What 
> search string do you use? Do you have a way to enter Unicode quotes when 
> doing this, or does your pager provide a special regular expression 
> syntax which makes it easier to match them?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Frederick
> 
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