[R] Strange characters in 2.1.0?

[Dan Bolser]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Bolser <dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk>
>>>>>>     on Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:48:50 +0100 (BST) writes:
>
>    Dan> 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.
>
>    Dan> I feel it is something utf8-ish, I am using emacs-ess-5.2.3, which was
>    Dan> working fine under R-2.0.0, but developed this problem under R-2.1.0
>
>ess-5.2.3  is outdated for the purpose of well cooperating with
>UTF-8 outputs from R 2.1.x
>IIRC, ESS cooperates with   R "with UTF encoding" since about ESS 5.2.6.
>but ESS-5.2.8 is current  { --> http://ESS.r-project.org/ )
>
>      ..........
>
>    Dan> I have gone back to 2.0.0 :)
>
>Don't do that!
>You've lost tons of nice new features and gained quite an amount
>of old bugs by downgrading .. 

Ahhh ... thank you for making this clear to me now :)

Sadly I can't find R-2.1.x rpm on CRAN? 


>
>Martin
>