On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Fisher Dennis <[email protected]> wrote:
> R 2.15.2 > OS X ML > > Colleagues, > > I am "sink"ing output from statistical tests to a text file: > sink(FILENAME) > SOMETEST() > sink() > > When I open the file with TextEdit, the output from lm() contains: > Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 > > When I open the identical file in Word (2008), that same text appears as: > Signif. codes: 0 ‚Äò***‚Äô 0.001 ‚Äò**‚Äô 0.01 ‚Äò*‚Äô 0.05 ‚Äò.‚Äô > 0.1 ‚Äò ‚Äô 1 > When Word opens, it asks about the selection of encoding for the file. I > tried a number of options and all lead to the same distorted text. > > Any idea how to resolve this (other than to ignore Word!)? > > Dennis Looks like the directional quotes are messing you up. Modify your code to use: options(useFancyQuotes = FALSE) before you use sink(). Also, you could use: options(show.signif.stars = FALSE) to suppress the inclusion of the significance stars, which I have in my .Rprofile file. Regards, Marc Schwartz _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
