From Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk  Fri Sep 16 23:51:24 2005
From: Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk ( (Ted Harding))
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:51:24 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] Typo [Was:  Rd and guillemots]
In-Reply-To: <432B09A0.1090607@stats.uwo.ca>
Message-ID: <XFMail.050916225124.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>

On 16-Sep-05 Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> [...]
> This seems to happen in Rdconv.pm, around here:
> 
>      ## avoid conversion to guillemots
>      $c =~ s/<</<\{\}</;
>      $c =~ s/>>/>\{\}>/;

The name of the "continental" quotation mark ? is "guillemet".

The R Development Core Team must have had some bird on the brain
at the time ...

Ted.



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[Rd] Typo [Was: Rd and guillemots]
 (Ted Harding