[R] Strange characters in 2.1.0?

[Dan Bolser]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Douglas Bates wrote:

>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.

I feel it is something utf8-ish, I am using emacs-ess-5.2.3, which was
working fine under R-2.0.0, but developed this problem under R-2.1.0

>A cheap way of avoiding this particular problem is 
>
>options(show.signif.stars = FALSE)

The problem also affects directory/file names, so it breaks stuff in other
ways.

I have gone back to 2.0.0 :)



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