First step to check: update to a released version of R 2.10.0!
If that does not help, using options(useFancyQuotes = TRUE) in the
released version should (but possibly not as far back as your alpha
pre-release).
I suspect that whatever you mean my 'my X11 window' (it is the
application running in the window that matters, perhaps an xterm?) it
is set to the wrong character set. I simply use a Mac terminal
window, and that ought to default to UTF-8 (but it can be changed, so
check if you try one).
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote:
> Another anomaly from our rhel5 system, again sessionInfo() below.
> When I'm logged in remotely via ssh from my macpro and view
documentation
> files in my X11 window, strings in single quotes in the files are all
> abbreviated as ? . The same files appear fine when rendered in X11
> using the local R, and also appear fine in a terminal window on the
> linux machine, so this could easily also be some sort of ssh/X11 issue
> not R at all, but if someone had any suggestion for further checking
> it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Roger
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012)
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42 SparseM_0.80
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.0
>
>
> url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker
> email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics
> vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois
> fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801
>
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