[R] East European

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Remigijus Lapinskas wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> There has just been this question (as well as the answer to it) in the S list:

Answered by me ...

> > I would like to put some text in plots... but in french. How can I
> > write accented letters?
> > I suppose that there is a possibility similar as the one which
> > works in LaTeX, isn't it?
>
> What about R (for Windows and in East European languages)? Specifically,
> how can I give a title like this:
>
> plot(x,y,main="\v Salis") (i.e. S must be with a "hat")?

That's Scaron, \212, and it works for me (Windows 2000).  Did you actually
try it?

There are limits: only characters in WinAnsi encoding are likely to work.

As for `East European': cyrllic languages are not covered, nor is
at least one Western European language (Greek).

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