From: Yihui Xie [xieyi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 8:39 PM
>I believe this is because R uses sQuote() to print package versions
>which introduces curly quotes (non-ASCII characters).
>Unfortunately sQuote() was hard-coded in the printing function, so
>there is no direct way to get rid of the two curly quotes, and you
>have to use as.character(), or packageDescription('knitr',
>fields='Version')
Ah, that makes sense. Well thanks for investigating this for me. I feel more
comfortable at least knowing what's going on.
Scott
