[R] Sweaving quotes

Murray Jorgensen maj at waikato.ac.nz
Fri Jul 30 00:22:12 CEST 2010


I tried
\usepackage[cp1252]{inputenc}

and it works well, giving cursive directional quotes in the final 
document. Thank you Brian.

I didn't find package ae on the Auckland CRAN mirror so I wonder if it 
is a LaTeX package. In any case I am happy now!

Cheers,  Murray

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> The alternative is to tell LaTeX what encoding the file is in.  For 
> those using UTF-8 locales this means adding the line
> 
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> 
> Now Murray mentions 'Vista', and so is presumably using cp1252 (the 
> Western-European-language Windows default).  That is spported by 
> inputenc, so try
> 
> \usepackage[cp1252]{inputenc}
> 
> In either case, the LaTeX font used may or may not have directional 
> quotes -- since this is an issue for the R manuals, see our 
> documentation for ways around this (such as package ae).
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 28, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Murray Jorgensen wrote:
>>
>>> The significance code line to summary() applied to an lm() fitted 
>>> model object is
>>>
>>> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
>>>
>>> The corresponding line in the LaTeX source produced by Sweave is
>>>
>>> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
>>>
>>> which looks the same in my email (Thunderbird on a Vista machine), 
>>> but when I look at the file in WinEdt the quotes appear rounded and 
>>> cursive.
>>>
>>> On LaTeXing and dvipsing the opening and closing quotes turn into 
>>> S-acute and S-circumflex respectively.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how avoid this effect?
>>>
>>> Cheers,  Murray
>>
>>
>> Murray,
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>>> summary(lm.D9)
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> # Set to not use fancy quotes, but "TeX" style
>> # See ?options and ?sQuote
>> options(useFancyQuotes = "TeX")
>>
>>
>>
>>> summary(lm.D9)
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Signif. codes:  0 `***' 0.001 `**' 0.01 `*' 0.05 `.' 0.1 ` ' 1
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Marc Schwartz
>>
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