On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Paul Murrell wrote:
Martin Maechler wrote:
"GF" == Guillaume Filteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:38:04 -0500 writes:
GF> Hello all, I'm trying to use text symbols in R, such are
GF> greek letters and mathematical operators. Do you know
GF> where I can find a list telling me how to use all those
GF> symbols? I'd like to have them displayed in my graphs.
help(plotmath) # has "See Also:" for
demo(plotmath) # which has a list
Also see http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/CM/AdobeSym.html
You should be able to produce any of the symbols in that table.
(as linked from ?plotmath, thanks Paul. Note 'should': it depends on
having a complete Symbol font and a few systems do not.)
And possibly others via Unicode: ?plotmath now says on a Unix-alike
In a UTF-8 locale any Unicode character can be entered, perhaps as
a '\uxxxx' or '\Uxxxxxxxx' escape sequence, but the issue is
whether the graphics device is able to display the character.
The widest range of characters is likely to be available in the
'X11' device using cairo: see its help page for how installing
additional fonts can help.
In non-UTF-8 locales there is normally no support for symbols not
in the languages for which the current encoding was intended.
and on Windows
Any Unicode character can be entered into a text string _via_ a
'\uxxxx' escape, or used by number in a call to 'points'. The
'windows' family of devices can display such characters if they
are available in the font in use. A good way to both find out
which characters are available in a font and to determine the
Unicode number is to use the ‘Character Map’ accessory (usually on
the ‘Start’ menu under ‘Accessories->System Tools’. You can also
copy-and-paste characters from the ‘Character Map’ window to
'Rgui' (but not to 'Rterm').
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