Hmisc latex function

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Hmmmm,  It works for me.  Interesting.

It almost looks like the temp dir is not being created, but thats not 
possible because R does that.  It might be a Unicode issue with you 
system shell.  Can you run this statement in R

sys(paste('cd',dQuote(tempdir()),";",
"echo Hello BOB > test.test",
";","cat test.test"))


What version of Hmisc are you using?  What local are you using?

Charles

I've had similar problems latex() which I tracked down to dQuote() that
I think are related to unicode and locales on Ubuntu 5.04. I think the
problem is with Ubuntu (because I get funny little boxes now and then
with various applications), but have not managed to get my head around
unicode sufficiently well to be able to write a sensible post about this
or work out how to fix it. My current way of getting around this in R is
to change the locale:

Sys.getlocale()

[1]
"LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"

tempdir()

[1] "/tmp/RtmpWL64Z2"

dQuote(tempdir())

[1] "Ã¢Â€Âœ/tmp/RtmpWL64Z2Ã¢Â€Â"  [I get funny little boxes here]

Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "C")

[1] "C"

Sys.getlocale()

[1]
"LC_CTYPE=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"

dQuote(tempdir())

[1] "\"/tmp/RtmpWL64Z2\"" [No funny boxes this time]

version

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platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    1.1
year     2005
month    06
day      20
language R

[Hmmm, I need to update my R installation]

David Whiting
School of Clinical Medical Sciences, The Medical School
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK.