[R] italian keyboard and ~ symbol

[Henrik Bengtsson]

<Press-Alt> + Num1 + Num2 + Num6 + <Release-Alt> where Num1, Num2 &
Num6 are 1, 2 & 6 on the *numeric keyboard* (not the ones above the
letter keys) will produce ASCII character 126 ("~", tilde) on my WinXP
Pro in both Rterm and Rgui for R v1.8.1. Do you get anything at all?
Does it work in any other Windows applications or dialogs (you
mentioned Word)? What about <Press-Alt> + Num6 + Num5 + <Release-Alt>
(should give "A")?

You could also consider remapping your keyboard, i.e. for some
physical key replace a "useless/never used" character with "~"
(tilde). Some initial links can be found at
http://www.maths.lth.se/help/windows/keyboard/.

Cheers

Henrik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Federico Calboli
> Sent: den 30 mars 2004 13:25
> To: r-help
> Subject: [R] italian keyboard and ~ symbol
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I would like to ask the following:
> 
> a colleague is using R 1.8.1 for Windows XP on his laptop. 
> The keboard is the standard Italian layout, which is missing 
> the ~ (tilde) key. For reasons unknown, typing <Ctrl> <Alt> 
> 126, which I understand is the standard ASCII code, does not 
> produce the desired symbol (any combination of keys seems to
fail...)
> 
> Can anyone advice how to produce the ~ symbol, short of a 
> copy/paste from MS Word?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Federico Calboli 
> 
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