[R] Symbols for male/female

[Ben Bolker]

  If you're using LaTeX anyway, one possibility is to use the psfrag
package to post-process the postscript ...

testmf.R
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x <- runif(10)
y <- runif(10)
mf <- sample(0:1,10,TRUE)
postscript("testmf.eps",width=4,height=4,
           horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper = "special")
plot(x,y,type="n")
text(x,y,ifelse(mf==0,"m","f"))
dev.off()


testmf.tex
-----------------
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{psfrag}
\usepackage{wasysym}

\psfrag{m}{\mars}
\psfrag{f}{\venus}

\begin{document}
\includegraphics{testmf}
\end{document}



On 31 Oct 2002, Lorenz Gygax wrote:

> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to use the biological symbols for male and female as plotting
> symbols in a scatterplot (ideally filled and non-filled). R does not seem
> to have these symbols using pch= in plot() nor are they implemented via
> expression() or at least I did not find them. I found that the symbols are
> e.g. available in the wasysym and the marvosym package in LaTeX.
> 
> I have coded two very rough functions that are able to approximate those
> symbols, but not surprisingly, they are not very efficient regarding the
> file size they produce (I have included the code for the female symbol at
> the end of the mail).
> 
> Is there a more or less straightforward way to implement these symbols so
> that they can be accessed either by pch= or expression()? Can you give me
> some pointers on how I would need to go about this?
> 
> Thanks and regards, Lorenz
> 

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