<Press-Alt> + Num1 + Num2 + Num6 + <Release-Alt> where Num1, Num2 & Num6 are 1, 2 & 6 on the *numeric keyboard* (not the ones above the letter keys) will produce ASCII character 126 ("~", tilde) on my WinXP Pro in both Rterm and Rgui for R v1.8.1. Do you get anything at all? Does it work in any other Windows applications or dialogs (you mentioned Word)? What about <Press-Alt> + Num6 + Num5 + <Release-Alt> (should give "A")?
You could also consider remapping your keyboard, i.e. for some physical key replace a "useless/never used" character with "~" (tilde). Some initial links can be found at http://www.maths.lth.se/help/windows/keyboard/. Cheers Henrik > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Federico Calboli > Sent: den 30 mars 2004 13:25 > To: r-help > Subject: [R] italian keyboard and ~ symbol > > > Dear All, > > I would like to ask the following: > > a colleague is using R 1.8.1 for Windows XP on his laptop. > The keboard is the standard Italian layout, which is missing > the ~ (tilde) key. For reasons unknown, typing <Ctrl> <Alt> > 126, which I understand is the standard ASCII code, does not > produce the desired symbol (any combination of keys seems to fail...) > > Can anyone advice how to produce the ~ symbol, short of a > copy/paste from MS Word? > > Regards, > > Federico Calboli > > > -- > > > > ================================= > > Federico C. F. Calboli > > Dipartimento di Biologia > Via Selmi 3 > 40126 Bologna > Italy > > tel (+39) 051 209 4187 > fax (+39) 051 251 4286 > > f.calboli at ucl.ac.uk > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailma> n/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE > do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html