[R] Sweave documents have corrupted double quotes

[Peter Dalgaard]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Hey, everybody.
>>
>> I am concluding that this Sweave wrecks quotation marks in typewriter
>> font is a bug in Sweave.
> 
> No. It's generic to the ae package. Try this:
> 
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{ae}
> \begin{document}
> \noindent
> \texttt{``double quotes''}\\
> \texttt{"double quotes"}\\
> \texttt{`single quotes'}\\
> \texttt{`{}`double single quotes'{}'}\\
> \end{document}
> 
> Basically, TeX is trying to use symbols which are not present in the AE 
> fonts. Sweave uses the ae package by default, which may or may not be a 
> good idea (AE fonts tend to behave somewhat better than Computer Modern 
> bitmaps in PDF files).
>

Looks like the aecompl package removes the problem too, i.e.

\usepackage{aecompl}
\usepackage[noae]{Sweave}

Apparently, you do need the noae bit even if you load aecompl after Sweave.

> 
>>
>> I've uploaded the foo.tex file so now you can see the Rnw, tex, and
>> pdf file side by side.
>>
>> http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex
>>
>> As previous poster noted, the Sweave instruction is added at the end
>> of the preamble in foo.tex. However, moving the \usepackage{Sweave} to
>> the beginning of the preamble has no effect. Same black boxes.
>>
>> It is true that one can work around this by inserting the declaration
>>
>> \usepackage[noae]Sweave
>>
>> into the Rnw file (or in the tex file).  That solves the problem,
>> however, the user is left with a suspicious feeling.  What will go
>> wrong in my output after [noae] is inserted? If nothing, why was it
>> there in the first place?
>>
>> pj
>>
>>
> 
> 


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