[R-SIG-Mac] turn off text transforms

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Timothy Bates wrote:

> hi all,
> if I enter the following into R.app
>
>> 1/8 x 248.70
>
> I get
> Error: unexpected symbol in "1/8 x”
>
> Because OS text entry is transforming 1/8 into ⅛.

I don't think so: do you have any evidence for that?  R.app gives the 
same message as any other version of R.

Your expression is invalid R: use * for multiplication.

>
> Is there a way to turn that off selectively for R.app?
>
> tim
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