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" > -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 UCL Department of Geography Pearson Building [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street London, UK [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ WC1E 6BT [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk/ %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.