On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 11-09-20 3:08 AM, Ashim Kapoor wrote:
>
>> Dear R-helpers,
>>
>> Please look at the following minimal code.
>>
>> \documentclass[a4paper]{**article}
>> \begin{document}
>> <<>>==
>> library(zoo)
>> a<-zoo(1:4,order.by=Sys.time()**+1:4)
>> str(a)
>> @
>> \end{document}
>>
>> When I do R CMD Sweave,followed by pdflatex ,and view the final pdf, the
>> letter surrounding the phrase zoo,
>>
>> a ***zoo*** series
>>
>> are messed up.
>>
>> They are messed up even inside Emacs now that I think of it but not inside
>> the R Terminal.
>>
>> How can I fix this inside Sweave / Emacs.
>>
>
> Sounds like one of these possibilities:
>
> - in one case you have "smart quotes", i.e. directional quotes. Those may
> not be supported by your pdflatex, or your viewer
>
> - (unlikely) something in the display is a special sequence that ESS in
> Emacs is reacting to badly. I think this is unlikely, because the developer
> of str() uses ESS.
>
> To change the type of quotes, set options(useFancyQuotes=FALSE) or one of
> the other options listed in ?options.
>
The above useFancyQuotes option did the trick in BOTH pdf AND Emacs. Many
thanks.
Ashim
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