[Rd] unicode in R documentation

[Frederick Eaton]

Thank you both! it works

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 04:00:05PM +0000, Martin Morgan wrote:
>I have options(useFancyQuotes = FALSE) in my ~/.Rprofile.
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>Martin Morgan

>Not sure if this is more of an R-help topic. I use
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>    options(useFancyQuotes = FALSE)
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>in my .Rprofile.
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>Best regards,
>
>	Sebastian
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>
>>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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