[R] Sweave documents have corrupted double quotes

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Jan 17 23:00:19 CET 2009


On 17/01/2009 4:29 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch <at> stats.uwo.ca> writes:
> 
> 
>> R is open source, so this is no mystery:  if you use [noae] then Sweave 
>> won't use the ae package in LaTeX.  The problem you were having with 
>> quotes is that the ae package doesn't define those.  If you choose not 
>> to use it, then you won't get the symbols that it does define.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
> 
>   So if this is a LaTeX bug, should we report it upstream
> to the maintainer (Lars Engebretsen, http://sites.engebretsen.ch/lars/ ) ?

It is documented in the README for the ae package, so I don't think a 
new report is needed.

Duncan Murdoch

  >  Defending Paul a little bit: from his point of view, Sweave
> is what broke things, and although the bug isn't in Sweave it
> would take a certain amount of digging to discover that ...
>>From the ae-unaware user's point of view, adding Sweave is
> necessary and sufficient to produce the unwanted behavior.
> 
>  cheers
>   Ben Bolker
> 
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