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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