[R] postscript symbols?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 18:48 -0800, ivo_welch-rstat8303 at mailblocks.com
> wrote:
>> dear R wizards:
>>
>> is it possible to use a postscript font symbol as a plot symbol?    in
>> particular, I want to use the four postscript symbols for playing cards
>> (club, heart, spade, diamond) as points.  In LaTeX, these four are
>>
>> \Pisymbol{psy}{"A7} \Pisymbol{psy}{"A8}
>> \Pisymbol{psy}{"A9} \Pisymbol{psy}{"A10}
>>
>> and what I would love to do is place them, at say, (x=1,y=1),
>> (x=2,y=2), (x=3,y=3) and (x=4,y=4).  Help appreciated---or merely a
>> note that this is impossible.

Font 5 is the symbol font, so

plot(1:5, type="n")
points(1:4, 1:4, pch=167:170, font=5)

does this (not in that order, but you can make the mapping from that plot).

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