R-help under Windows incorrect characters

[James W. MacDonald]

 Hi,

I am using Vincent Goulet's Windows port of emacs/ess, with R-2.10.0. The help pages (text help) now have a \221 or \222 instead of a ', which makes it difficult to read the help. For instance, from ?log:

R-2.9.0

 'log' computes logarithms, by default natural logarithms,  'log10'
     computes common (i.e., base 10) logarithms, and 'log2' computes
     binary (i.e., base 2) logarithms. The general form 'log(x, base)'
     computes logarithms with base 'base'.

R-2.10.0

  \221log\222 computes logarithms, by default natural logarithms,  \221log10\222
     computes common (i.e., base 10) logarithms, and \221log2\222 computes
     binary (i.e., base 2) logarithms. The general form \221log(x, base)\222
     computes logarithms with base \221base\222.

Is this a setting I don't know about?

TIA,

Jim


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James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Douglas Lab
University of Michigan
Department of Human Genetics
5912 Buhl
1241 E. Catherine St.
Ann Arbor MI 48109-5618
734-615-7826


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[Kevin Wright-5]

I use "Dina" as my font and this is exactly the behavior that I see.  I
think it because the font that does not have glyphs defined for characters
221 and 222.

Kevin Wright


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, James MacDonald <jmacdon@...>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I am using Vincent Goulet's Windows port of emacs/ess, with R-2.10.0. The
> help pages (text help) now have a \221 or \222 instead of a ', which makes
> it difficult to read the help. For instance, from ?log:
>
> R-2.9.0
>
>  'log' computes logarithms, by default natural logarithms,  'log10'
>     computes common (i.e., base 10) logarithms, and 'log2' computes
>     binary (i.e., base 2) logarithms. The general form 'log(x, base)'
>     computes logarithms with base 'base'.
>
> R-2.10.0
>
>  \221log\222 computes logarithms, by default natural logarithms,
>  \221log10\222
>     computes common (i.e., base 10) logarithms, and \221log2\222 computes
>     binary (i.e., base 2) logarithms. The general form \221log(x, base)\222
>     computes logarithms with base \221base\222.
>
> Is this a setting I don't know about?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jim
>
>
> --
>
> James W. MacDonald, M.S.
> Biostatistician
> Douglas Lab
> University of Michigan
> Department of Human Genetics
> 5912 Buhl
> 1241 E. Catherine St.
> Ann Arbor MI 48109-5618
> 734-615-7826
>
>
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> used for urgent or sensitive issues
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[Richard M. Heiberger]

>> Is this a setting I don't know about?
options(useFancyQuotes=FALSE)

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[James W. MacDonald]

Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
>
>>> Is this a setting I don't know about?
> options(useFancyQuotes=FALSE)

Thanks, but that's already the default on Windows (except for Rgui).

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James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Douglas Lab
University of Michigan
Department of Human Genetics
5912 Buhl
1241 E. Catherine St.
Ann Arbor MI 48109-5618
734-615-7826

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