[R] Can I see japanese in R run with Emacs(ESS) ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Shigeru MASE wrote:

> Dear Mr. Hiroto Miyoshi,
>
> I am a Japanese R user. I cannot understand what you
> actually want to know. (I need to say I use R from Linux,
> not from MS Windows.)
>
> You can insert and see Japanese in R code if your
> (X)Emacs has the mule (Japanized) option. This is
> so regardless to the use of ESS. I frequently insert
> Japanese comments in R codes.
>
> If your question is whether or not you can use Japanese
> symbols or names in R code, it seems problematic.
> I heard this is apparently OK, but actually it usually
> seems to cause some character coding problems later.
>
> If your question is whether or not you can use Japanese
> in graphic outputs, the answer is OK. type "help(Japanese")
> to R prompt. But the set of available Japanese characters
> is rather limited and you must input them by their code
> numbers. Experts can handle this problem by editing output
> ps file directly.

For Windows only, see the rw-FAQ: the Windows devices allow Japanese
TrueType fonts to be used directly.  (A feature added at the request of a
Japanese user, but one a visitor showed me working once on his laptop.)

>
> You can see several discussions about the use of Japanese in R
> in past articles of R-jp (mailing list of a small Japanese
> R-user groups), see
>
> http://www.md.tsukuba.ac.jp/epidemiology/~mokada/ml/R-jp.html
>
>
> By the way, let me introduce my Japanese web-page
>
> http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/~mase/
>
> This page includes Japanese translation of two basic manuals
>
> "Introduction to R" and "Writing R Extensions"
>
> as well as translation of about half of R basic help manuals
> in html format. I hope they will help R-users in Japan.
>
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> Tokyo Institute of Technology,
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