[R] Strange characters in 2.1.0?

[Douglas Bates]

On 6/6/05, Dan Bolser <dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Signif. codes:  0 *** 0.001 ** 0.01 * 0.05 . 0.1   1
> 
> Signif. codes:  0 <80><98>***<80><99> 0.001 <80><98>**<80><99> 0.01
> <80><98>*<80>        <99> 0.05 <80><98>.<80><99> 0.1 <80><98> <80><99> 1
> 
> Signif. codes:  0 *** 0.001 ** 0.01 * 0.05 . 0.1   1
> 
> hmm... they go away when I paste them in...

Check the character set in use.  You probably are using a UTF-8
encoding in an environment that does not support display of that
character set.

A cheap way of avoiding this particular problem is 

options(show.signif.stars = FALSE)