[Rd] bizarre signif stars in Sweave latex

[Charles Geyer]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:42:21AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> What locale is this?
> 
> My guess is that this is a UTF-8 locale.

Yes.

    > Sys.getlocale()
    [1] "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"

> If so, you need to tell latex 
> the input is in UTF-8, which you can do in the current LaTeX release
> (you need 2003/12/01).  As I recall you do this by
> 
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Right.  This works.

Silly me.  I fell like the drunk looking for his keys under the lamppost.
Here I was looking for a solution in the R docs, when I should have been
looking in the LaTeX Companion.
-- 
Charles Geyer
Professor, School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
charlie at stat.umn.edu