quoted strings in foo.Rd rendered as â
First step to check: update to a released version of R 2.10.0! If that does not help, using options(useFancyQuotes = TRUE) in the released version should (but possibly not as far back as your alpha pre-release). I suspect that whatever you mean my 'my X11 window' (it is the application running in the window that matters, perhaps an xterm?) it is set to the wrong character set. I simply use a Mac terminal window, and that ought to default to UTF-8 (but it can be changed, so check if you try one).
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote:
Another anomaly from our rhel5 system, again sessionInfo() below. When I'm logged in remotely via ssh from my macpro and view documentation files in my X11 window, strings in single quotes in the files are all abbreviated as ? . The same files appear fine when rendered in X11 using the local R, and also appear fine in a terminal window on the linux machine, so this could easily also be some sort of ssh/X11 issue not R at all, but if someone had any suggestion for further checking it would be greatly appreciated. Roger
sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base other attached packages: [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42 SparseM_0.80 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.10.0 url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801
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