Hi,
In R under cygwin I have trouble to correctly display help in text
format. One problem arises when there are single qoutes in the text like
in "?help" which looks like this
help package:utils R Documentation
Documentation
Description:
Usage:
help(topic, package = NULL, lib.loc = NULL,
verbose = getOption("verbose"),
try.all.packages = getOption("help.try.all.packages"),
help_type = getOption("help_type"))
Arguments:
Details:
The following types of help are available:
Plain text help
...
The whole paragraph containing typographic single quotes is not displayed. I
can work around that a bit by issuing
tools::Rd2txt_options(code_quote=FALSE)
but there are still those single quotes like in
"See `Details? for what happens if this is omitted."
Furthermore, lines with bullets don't get indented and no bullets are
displayed (the "Plain text help" line above). I am using a UTF-8
locale.
When setting LANG to "C" or a latin1 locale, help is displayed
correctly, but then there are all sorts of problems with non ASCII
characters.
What can I do?