[R] Japanese in R

[Shigeru Mase]

Dear Paul Murrel, this is a little bit late reply to your previous 
information on the Japanese facility of R.

Recently I installed R(1.0.1) from the woody package of Debian GNU/Linux
and tested help(Japanese) and example(Japanese) as you kindly taught me. 
They worked fine!

Frankly speaking, the quality of Japanese fonts is not so good (I have
not yet tired to print out them), but, of course, far better than having 
nothing. Thank you very much for your (and maybe other's) efforts.

As you know very well, almost all Japanese PC have a variant of 
qwerty keyboard with 106 (or 109) keys. Extra keys are for Japanese
input and we use special software to convert alphabetic inputs into 
Japanese. I am not completely certain yet, but seemingly only method 
for using Japanese fonts from R is just as you did in example(Japanese),
that is, using Hershey fonts codes directly. Therefore, fortunately
or unfortunately, no problem due to Japanese special keyboards at present, 
Probably this is not a big problem since we need Japanese only in 
legends or titles. 

Again thank you very much. This solves partially one of main obstacles of the 
use of R in Japan. 

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Shigeru Mase <mase at is.titech.ac.jp>
Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sciences,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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