On 29/03/2011 2:40 PM, stephen's mailinglist account wrote:
I have been using both Windows and Linux versions of R so when I have opened files created in Windows I have found some issues in Linux. One was that my windows setup allowed me to enter a degree symbol from the keyboard for labelling axes. Now I have found that the following expression seems to work on both systemsxlab = expression(paste("Temperature [",degree,"C]")), (I found this on someone's blog, but I forget who-- thank you whoever you are). Now my question is can I set up my Linux (ubuntu) system to recognise the degree symbol input from the keyboard, or for the sake of portability should I just go with the solution I have found?
The issue may be that your Linux system is using UTF-8 encodings, while your Windows one is using the Windows version of Latin1. So if you tell R that your file is encoded in Latin1, it will likely work. You can do this in the DESCRIPTION file for a package, or the "encoding" argument to source().
You can probably tell Ubuntu to use Latin1 for everything, but I would guess that's a bad idea.
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