On 11/10/05 01:12, Earl F. Glynn wrote,: > "FISCHER, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> In a plot, can I specify pch to be a greek symbol? (I looked at >>show.pch() in the Hmisc package but couldn't see the right symbols in > there). >>If not, I guess I can get around this using text(x,y,expression()). > > I'm not sure where this is explained very well. Having ?font give a clue > about this would be nice. > > Use font=5, the symbol font. To see what's in font=5: > > par(font=5, las=1) > plot(0:15,0:15,type="n",ylim=c(15,0), > main="Symbols in Font=5", > xlab="", ylab="",xaxt="n", yaxt="n") > axis(BOTTOM<-1, at=0:15, 1:16) > axis(LEFT <-2, at=0:15) > abline(v=0.5 + 0:14, > h=0.5 + 0:14, col="grey", lty="dotted") > > # pch index of any cell is 16*row + column > for(i in 0:255) > { > x <- i %%16; > y <- i %/% 16; > points(x,y,pch=i+1) > }
When I execute this code, I get a calligraphic R or P occurring with all of the nifty characters, e.g. \clubsuit. For example par(font=5, las=1) plot(0:1, 0:1, type="n") points(.5, .5, pch=167) This occurs on screen and in postscript() output. And with R2.1.0 and R2.2.0. Is this a bug? Ted. > R.Version() $platform [1] "i686-pc-linux-gnu" $arch [1] "i686" $os [1] "linux-gnu" $system [1] "i686, linux-gnu" $status [1] "" $major [1] "2" $minor [1] "2.0" $year [1] "2005" $month [1] "10" $day [1] "06" $"svn rev" [1] "35749" $language [1] "R" -- Dr E.A. Catchpole Visiting Fellow Univ of New South Wales at ADFA, Canberra, Australia and University of Kent, Canterbury, England - www.ma.adfa.edu.au/~eac - fax: +61 2 6268 8786 - ph: +61 2 6268 8895 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
