[R] Sweave produces gibberish instead of apostrophe in pdf

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 20:33 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:35 +0100, Paul Hiemstra wrote:
<snip />
> > Stick this in your preamble and see if it works (you might need to
> > install a TexLive package from your usual Debian repository to get this
> > [LaTeX] package installed):
> >
> > \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> >
> > it did for me on my Fedora box when I first came across this issue.
> 
> The standard 'spell' is \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}: that is what R itself 
> uses when making a package manual if the encoding is UTF-8.  That should 
> come with any reasonably recent LaTeX (dates in the LaTeX world are 
> imaginary, but I think it is from the '2003' release).

Thank you for the correction/clarification Prof. Ripley.

If you'll permit some further 'guesswork' on my part, IIRC, I had a
problem \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} on an early Fedora Core but
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} worked and I am a creature of habit at
times. Hence \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} was in the Rnw file I looked
at to check I'd got this 'correct'.

Interestingly, the CTAN page for the unicode package:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/unicode/

contains the instruction

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

Having checked on my Fedora 8 machines, both incantations produce the
desired result.

All the best,

Gavin

> 
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > G
> >
> >>
> >> This is a sample, the problem is in the lm output in the "Signif. codes"
> >> line:
> >>
> >> \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
> >> \title{Spam}
> >> \author{F. Bar}
> >>
> >> \begin{document}
> >> <<reg>>=
> >> n <- 50
> >> x <- seq(1, n)
> >> a.true <- 3
> >> b.true <- 1.5
> >> y.true <- a.true + b.true * x
> >> s.true <- 17.3
> >> y <- y.true + s.true * rnorm(n)
> >> out1 <- lm(y ~ x)
> >> summary(out1)
> >> @
> >> \end{document}
> >>
> >> And the resulting .tex file:
> >>
> >> \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
> >> \title{Spam}
> >> \author{F. Bar}
> >>
> >> \usepackage{Sweave}
> >> \begin{document}
> >> \begin{Schunk}
> >> \begin{Sinput}
> >> > n <- 50
> >> > x <- seq(1, n)
> >> > a.true <- 3
> >> > b.true <- 1.5
> >> > y.true <- a.true + b.true * x
> >> > s.true <- 17.3
> >> > y <- y.true + s.true * rnorm(n)
> >> > out1 <- lm(y ~ x)
> >> > summary(out1)
> >> \end{Sinput}
> >> \begin{Soutput}
> >> Call:
> >> lm(formula = y ~ x)
> >>
> >> Residuals:
> >> Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
> >> -31.9565 -9.4745 -0.1708 7.3759 44.6538
> >>
> >> Coefficients:
> >> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> >> (Intercept) -0.07386 4.64712 -0.016 0.987
> >> x 1.57405 0.15860 9.924 3.25e-13 ***
> >> ---
> >> Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 .’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
> >>
> >> Residual standard error: 16.18 on 48 degrees of freedom
> >> Multiple R-Squared: 0.6723, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6655
> >> F-statistic: 98.49 on 1 and 48 DF, p-value: 3.245e-13
> >> \end{Soutput}
> >> \end{Schunk}
> >> \end{document}
> >>
> >> cheers and thanks for any help,
> >> Paul
> >>
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