[R] Degree symbol

[stephen's mailinglist account]

On 29 March 2011 19:48, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/03/2011 2:40 PM, stephen's mailinglist account wrote:
>>
>> I have been using both Windows and Linux versions of R >> Now I have found that the following expression seems to work on both systems
>>
>> xlab = expression(paste("Temperature [",degree,"C]")),
>>
>>
>> Now my question is can I set up my Linux (ubuntu) system to recognise
>> the degree symbol input from the keyboard, or for the sake of
>> portability should I just go with the solution I have found?
>
> The issue may be that your Linux system is using UTF-8 encodings, while your
> Windows one is using the Windows version of Latin1.  So if you tell R that
> your file is encoded in Latin1, it will likely work.  You can do this in the
> DESCRIPTION file for a package, or the "encoding" argument to source().
>
> You can probably tell Ubuntu to use Latin1 for everything, but I would guess
> that's a bad idea.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
Thank you
I will experiment with source (looks to be source(file,
encoding=getOption("latin1" or "UTF-8")).
Packaging is almost certainly a good idea to make my code more
general, and re-usable by me and others.  So I need to continue in
this direction


-- 
Stephen