R help - Mar 2007 - Sweave issue: quotes in verbatim-like output print incorrectly

Hi all

I love Sweave; use it all the time.

But I recently received a new computer, and ever since I
have had a problem I've never seen before.

For example, I place the following in my Snw file:

<<>>sms <- 
read.table("http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/dunn/Datasets/applications/popular/smsspeed.dat",
header=TRUE)
attach(sms)

sms.lm <- lm( Time ~ Age*Phone, subset=(Age>30) )
summary(sms.lm)
@

Standard stuff.   The output appears in the corresponding LaTeX
file as it should, in a verbatim-like environment as it should. 

But since I have had this new machine, this line of output:

Signif. codes:  0 ?***? 0.001 ?**? 0.01 ?*? 0.05 ?.? 0.1 ? ? 1

appears in my resulting pdf document as

Signif. codes: 0 ^a?A?Y***^a?A?Z0.001 ^a?A?Y**^a?A?Z0.01 ^a?A?Y*^a
?A?Z0.05 ^a?A?Y.^a?A?Z0.1 ^a?A?Y^a?A?Z1

In short, every quote is replaced by garbage.  This makes my
output looks incredibly bad.  (This is true for all cases; the above
is the output from my example.)

I also imagine (hope!) there is a very simple fix.  Can anyone help me?

Documents which used to produce the correct output document
now do this, so it must be something to do with my machine 
set up, or R set up, rather than the documents themselves, I guess.

Any help appreciated.  I have no idea where to look for the solution
(the FAQ. manuals and mailing archives were no help that I could see;
happy to be corrected).

P.

> version
               _
platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
arch           i486
os             linux-gnu
system         i486, linux-gnu
status         Patched
major          2
minor          4.0
year           2006
month          11
day            25
svn rev        39997
language       R
version.string R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-11-25 r39997)
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-11-25 r39997)
i486-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"
"utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
[7] "base"

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On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:33 +1000, Peter Dunn wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I love Sweave; use it all the time.
> 
> But I recently received a new computer, and ever since I
> have had a problem I've never seen before.
> 
> For example, I place the following in my Snw file:
Try this in the preamble of your Snw file:

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

(assuming you have the inputenc package installed and available). I'm
assuming you are now using a machine using UTF-8 for character
encodings. I used to get that output on my linux box (FC4 - 6) before I
added the above \usepackage statement.

HTH

G
> 
> <<>>> sms <- 
>
read.table("http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/dunn/Datasets/applications/popular/smsspeed.dat",
> header=TRUE)
> attach(sms)
> 
> sms.lm <- lm( Time ~ Age*Phone, subset=(Age>30) )
> summary(sms.lm)
> @
> 
> Standard stuff.   The output appears in the corresponding LaTeX
> file as it should, in a verbatim-like environment as it should. 
> 
> But since I have had this new machine, this line of output:
> 
> Signif. codes:  0 ?***? 0.001 ?**? 0.01 ?*? 0.05 ?.? 0.1 ? ? 1
> 
> appears in my resulting pdf document as
> 
> Signif. codes: 0 ^a?A?Y***^a?A?Z0.001 ^a?A?Y**^a?A?Z0.01 ^a?A?Y*^a
> ?A?Z0.05 ^a?A?Y.^a?A?Z0.1 ^a?A?Y^a?A?Z1
> 
> In short, every quote is replaced by garbage.  This makes my
> output looks incredibly bad.  (This is true for all cases; the above
> is the output from my example.)
> 
> I also imagine (hope!) there is a very simple fix.  Can anyone help me?
> 
> Documents which used to produce the correct output document
> now do this, so it must be something to do with my machine 
> set up, or R set up, rather than the documents themselves, I guess.
> 
> Any help appreciated.  I have no idea where to look for the solution
> (the FAQ. manuals and mailing archives were no help that I could see;
> happy to be corrected).
> 
> P.
> 
> 
> > version
>                _
> platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i486
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i486, linux-gnu
> status         Patched
> major          2
> minor          4.0
> year           2006
> month          11
> day            25
> svn rev        39997
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-11-25 r39997)
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.4.0 Patched (2006-11-25 r39997)
> i486-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> locale:
>
LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"
"utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
> [7] "base"
> 
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