[R-SIG-Mac] Encoding issue with text output from R

[Marc Schwartz]

On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Fisher Dennis <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote:

> R 2.15.2
> OS X ML
> 
> Colleagues,
> 
> I am "sink"ing output from statistical tests to a text file:
> 	sink(FILENAME)
> 	SOMETEST()
> 	sink()
> 
> When I open the file with TextEdit, the output from lm() contains:
> 	Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 
> 
> When I open the identical file in Word (2008), that same text appears as:
> 	Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 
> When Word opens, it asks about the selection of encoding for the file.  I tried a number of options and all lead to the same distorted text.
> 
> Any idea how to resolve this (other than to ignore Word!)?
> 
> Dennis  


Looks like the directional quotes are messing you up.

Modify your code to use:

  options(useFancyQuotes = FALSE)

before you use sink().

Also, you could use:

  options(show.signif.stars = FALSE)

to suppress the inclusion of the significance stars, which I have in my .Rprofile file.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz