Message-ID: <4AF44898.9000707@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2009-11-06T16:02:32Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Fancy quotes on Windows
In-Reply-To: <4AF4436D.30805@med.umich.edu>
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