unicode in R documentation

I have options(useFancyQuotes = FALSE) in my ~/.Rprofile.

Martin Morgan

Not sure if this is more of an R-help topic. I use

   options(useFancyQuotes = FALSE)

in my .Rprofile.

Best regards,

Sebastian

I find it useful to be able to search documentation for strings with 
quotes, for example when reading "?options" I might search for 
"'dev" to find an option starting with the letters "dev". Without 
the single-quote at the front, there would be a lot of matches that 
I'm not interested in, but the single-quote at the front helps 
narrow it down to the parameters that are being indexed in the 
documentation. However, I can't actually search for "'dev" in 
"?options" because it is written with curly quotes "?device?" and 
"'" does not match "?" on my machine.

Similarly, when I read manual pages for commands on Linux, I 
sometimes search for "-r" instead of "r" because "-r" is likely to 
find documentation for the option "-r", while searching for "r" will 
match almost every line.

I'm wondering what other people do when reading through 
documentation. Do you search for things at all or just read it 
straight through? Is there a hyperlinked version that just lets you 
jump to the "device" entry in "?options" or do you have to type out 
a search string? What search string do you use? Do you have a way to 
enter Unicode quotes when doing this, or does your pager provide a 
special regular expression syntax which makes it easier to match 
them?

Thanks,

Frederick