[Rd] Clarification for options(OutDec)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Stephen Eglen wrote:

>
> The documentation for the OutDec option says that it should be a
> 'one-character string'; yet, if I try a unicode character, it doesn't seem
> to work.  Are unicode chars not counted as one-character?

Correct, it has to be a single byte (and the comment dates from 
before UTF-8 was suported).

>
> This is within the mac GUI, but I also see this on linux boxes.
>
>> x <- '\u00B7'
>> nchar(x)
> [1] 1
>> options(OutDec=x)
> Error in options(OutDec = x) : invalid value for 'OutDec'
>
> I don't think I've changed anything with my LANG settings, but here it
> is anyway:
>
>> Sys.getenv('LANG')
>         LANG
> "en_GB.UTF-8"
>
>> version
>               _
> platform       i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
> arch           i386
> os             darwin8.11.1
> system         i386, darwin8.11.1
> status
> major          2
> minor          9.0
> year           2009
> month          04
> day            17
> svn rev        48333
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>
>
> Stephen
>
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