Re: [R] greek letters do not work in expression

2017-07-30 Thread Uwe Ligges 

There is no internationalization of help pages, only of messages.

Best,
Uwe

On 30.07.2017 21:51, David Winsemius wrote:



On Jul 30, 2017, at 8:25 AM, Uwe Ligges  wrote:



On 30.07.2017 17:22, Milan Cisty wrote:

Dear all,
I appreciate suggestions for following problem. I wrote to RStudio:
plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(paste(alfa)))
or the same happen when I wrote:
plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alfa))


Write "alpha", not "alfa".


To Misty;

This makes me wonder if the internationalization of the R documentation is overly "aggressive" in 
changing the spelling of "Greek" letters to conform to local spellings. Does your ?plotmath page 
spell the first letter in the Greek alphabet as "alfa".




Best,
Uwe Ligges


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Re: [R] greek letters do not work in expression

2017-07-30 Thread Rui Barradas 

Hello,

Inline.

Em 30-07-2017 20:51, David Winsemius escreveu:



On Jul 30, 2017, at 8:25 AM, Uwe Ligges  wrote:



On 30.07.2017 17:22, Milan Cisty wrote:

Dear all,
I appreciate suggestions for following problem. I wrote to RStudio:
plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(paste(alfa)))
or the same happen when I wrote:
plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alfa))


Write "alpha", not "alfa".


To Misty;

This makes me wonder if the internationalization of the R documentation is overly "aggressive" in 
changing the spelling of "Greek" letters to conform to local spellings. Does your ?plotmath page 
spell the first letter in the Greek alphabet as "alfa".


In portuguese we write alfa but the R documentation spells

alpha -- omega  Greek symbols

Rui Barradas





Best,
Uwe Ligges


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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'   
-Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law

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Re: [R] greek letters do not work in expression

2017-07-30 Thread David Winsemius 

> On Jul 30, 2017, at 8:25 AM, Uwe Ligges  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 30.07.2017 17:22, Milan Cisty wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I appreciate suggestions for following problem. I wrote to RStudio:
>> plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(paste(alfa)))
>> or the same happen when I wrote:
>> plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alfa))
> 
> Write "alpha", not "alfa".

To Misty;

This makes me wonder if the internationalization of the R documentation is 
overly "aggressive" in changing the spelling of "Greek" letters to conform to 
local spellings. Does your ?plotmath page spell the first letter in the Greek 
alphabet as "alfa".


> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
--

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'   
-Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law

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Re: [R] greek letters do not work in expression

2017-07-30 Thread Marc Schwartz 

> On Jul 30, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Milan Cisty  wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> I appreciate suggestions for following problem. I wrote to RStudio:
> plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(paste(alfa)))
> or the same happen when I wrote:
> plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alfa))
> what happen is, that description under x label is exactly "alpha", not greek
> letter alfa (α).
> Please where should I search problem, or what information to sent to list for
> identification of this problem?
> Thanks,
> Milan


Try using 'alpha' rather than 'alfa':

  plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alpha))

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

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Re: [R] greek letters do not work in expression

2017-07-30 Thread Uwe Ligges 



On 30.07.2017 17:22, Milan Cisty wrote:

Dear all,
I appreciate suggestions for following problem. I wrote to RStudio:
plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(paste(alfa)))
or the same happen when I wrote:
plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alfa))


Write "alpha", not "alfa".

Best,
Uwe Ligges



what happen is, that description under x label is exactly "alpha", not greek
letter alfa (α).
Please where should I search problem, or what information to sent to list for
identification of this problem?
Thanks,
Milan

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[R] greek letters do not work in expression

2017-07-30 Thread Milan Cisty 
Dear all,
I appreciate suggestions for following problem. I wrote to RStudio:
plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(paste(alfa)))
or the same happen when I wrote:
plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alfa))
what happen is, that description under x label is exactly "alpha", not greek
letter alfa (α).
Please where should I search problem, or what information to sent to list for
identification of this problem?
Thanks,
Milan

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