Fancy quotes on Windows
On 11/6/2009 10:40 AM, James W. MacDonald wrote:
Hi, I don't use Windows as my primary OS anymore, so didn't notice this until recently. In R-2.10.0 under Windows useFancyQuotes is FALSE by default, but this doesn't seem to affect the rendering of (text) help pages. This is not a problem if I run via the Rgui or Rterm (via DOS prompt), as the help pages are rendered in a popup window that understands directional quotes. However, if I run under emacs/ESS, the help is rendered within emacs, which doesn't understand directional quotes, so any quoted text is surrounded by \221thetext\222, which is obviously difficult to read. Is there another setting that I am missing that affects the usage of directional quotes for the help pages?
I don't see this. Are you sure you haven't got a typo somewhere?
When I run options("useFancyQuotes") in a new session, I see
> options("useFancyQuotes")
$useFancyQuotes
[1] TRUE
and when I ask for help, I see help pages that respect that choice, e.g.
> ?mean
gives ?trim = 0? in the description of x. If I set
> options(useFancyQuotes=FALSE)
> ?mean
I see 'trim = 0'.
Maybe if there's no typo, it's emacs or ESS that's messing up somehow.
Duncan Murdoch