single quotes in strings, example block
On Jul 31, 2014, at 4:55 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
On 31/07/2014, 4:27 AM, Adrian Du?a wrote:
Dear R-devel, In the example block of the documentation for a package, I need to use a single quote in a string: foo <- "Don't know" After building the package, it gets printed as: foo <- "Dont know"
I don't see this. Can you give more details, i.e. R version, how you printed it, etc.? It may be that you're not using an ascii single quote character, your editor has slipped in something else. Duncan Murdoch
I read the "Writing R Extensions" and "Parsing Rd files" from top to
bottom, but didn't find any solution.
Using \verb{} doesn't help, as:
Tag \verb is invalid in a \examples block
Neither \sQuote doesn't help, as:
'\s' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting ""Don\s"
I found the only macros which are interpreted within text are \var and
\link ... therefore I am stuck.
Any hint to other documentation I might read?
Thank you,
Adrian
I may not have had enough coffee yet this morning, but might this be related to the use of Fancy/Smart quotes? If so and you are using a text editor that supports them, you may have to disable them when working with this kind of output. Alternatively, or perhaps in addition, take a look at ?options and adjust 'useFancyQuotes' as may be required. I frequently have to set it to FALSE when using Sweave. Regards, Marc Schwartz