Re: [R] "R CMD Rd2txt" generate "_^H" for in all section titles

2014-11-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/11/2014, 10:28 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> Which text editor can actually display _^H correct? > > Not aware of any. It is from very old line printer behavior, which most > (all?) printers can still support even though few computers are set up to > utilize it. The "less" command in Unix-

Re: [R] "R CMD Rd2txt" generate "_^H" for in all section titles

2014-11-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/11/2014, 8:16 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 14/11/14 13:59, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 13/11/2014, 2:51 PM, Zheng Da wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to generate plain text from the .Rd files. I run "R CMD >>> Rd2txt xx.Rd -o xx.txt" to get the plain text file. When I open the >>> text fil

Re: [R] "R CMD Rd2txt" generate "_^H" for in all section titles

2014-11-13 Thread Jeff Newmiller
> Which text editor can actually display _^H correct? Not aware of any. It is from very old line printer behavior, which most (all?) printers can still support even though few computers are set up to utilize it. --- Jeff Newm

Re: [R] "R CMD Rd2txt" generate "_^H" for in all section titles

2014-11-13 Thread Zheng Da
Thank you. Great help! Given your information, we can generate text files without _^H with the following command: echo "tools::Rd2txt(\"$input_file\", out=\"$output_file\", options=list(underline_titles=FALSE))" | R --no-save It's kind tedious though. I'm just curious. Which text editor can actual

Re: [R] "R CMD Rd2txt" generate "_^H" for in all section titles

2014-11-13 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 13, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Zheng Da wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to generate plain text from the .Rd files. I run "R CMD > Rd2txt xx.Rd -o xx.txt" to get the plain text file. When I open the > text file, I see "_^H" in front of each character in all section > titles. I can't figure out wher

Re: [R] "R CMD Rd2txt" generate "_^H" for in all section titles

2014-11-13 Thread Rolf Turner
On 14/11/14 13:59, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 13/11/2014, 2:51 PM, Zheng Da wrote: Hello, I'm trying to generate plain text from the .Rd files. I run "R CMD Rd2txt xx.Rd -o xx.txt" to get the plain text file. When I open the text file, I see "_^H" in front of each character in all section titles.

Re: [R] "R CMD Rd2txt" generate "_^H" for in all section titles

2014-11-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/11/2014, 2:51 PM, Zheng Da wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to generate plain text from the .Rd files. I run "R CMD > Rd2txt xx.Rd -o xx.txt" to get the plain text file. When I open the > text file, I see "_^H" in front of each character in all section > titles. I can't figure out where the pr

[R] "R CMD Rd2txt" generate "_^H" for in all section titles

2014-11-13 Thread Zheng Da
Hello, I'm trying to generate plain text from the .Rd files. I run "R CMD Rd2txt xx.Rd -o xx.txt" to get the plain text file. When I open the text file, I see "_^H" in front of each character in all section titles. I can't figure out where the problem is. If I don't specify -o argument, "R CMD Rd2