[Rd] single quotes in strings, example block

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 13:01:31 CEST 2014


On 31/07/2014, 6:40 AM, Adrian Dușa wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 31/07/2014, 4:27 AM, Adrian Dușa wrote:
>>> Dear R-devel,
>>> [...]
>>
>> I don't see this.  Can you give more details, i.e. R version, how you
>> printed it, etc.?
>>
>> It may be that you're not using an ascii single quote character, your
>> editor has slipped in something else.
> 
> It must be related to my computer, then... it appears in the PDF file
> created after the R CMD check.
> It helps a lot, now that I know it is a possible MacOS matter, I will
> re-post this in the R-SIG-MAC
> 

Okay, now I see it in the PDF output of R CMD Rd2pdf on  MacOS.

This is an Inconsolata font issue.  If you look at the .tex file
(available with "R CMD Rd2pdf --no-clean") you'll see the quote there,
but LaTeX doesn't display it.

I don't remember what the fix is...

Duncan

> Just in case, here are the details:
> 
>> R.version
>                _
> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0
> arch           x86_64
> os             darwin13.1.0
> system         x86_64, darwin13.1.0
> status         RC
> major          3
> minor          1.1
> year           2014
> month          07
> day            08
> svn rev        66100
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.1.1 RC (2014-07-08 r66100)
> nickname       Sock it to Me
> 
> Thank you,
> Adrian
> 
>



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