Re: [Rd] Clarification for options(OutDec)

2009-04-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Stephen Eglen wrote: The documentation for the OutDec option says that it should be a 'one-character string'; yet, if I try a unicode character, it doesn't seem to work. Are unicode chars not counted as one-character? Correct, it has to be a single byte (and the comment

[Rd] Clarification for options(OutDec)

2009-04-22 Thread Stephen Eglen
The documentation for the OutDec option says that it should be a 'one-character string'; yet, if I try a unicode character, it doesn't seem to work. Are unicode chars not counted as one-character? This is within the mac GUI, but I also see this on linux boxes. > x <- '\u00B7' > nchar(x) [1] 1 >