[R] special symobol / character

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


FISCHER, Matthew wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
>     Thanks for your speedy reply,  I should have noted
> that I'm using a Linux machine.  However, when I copy
> the symbol from Windows to Linux (using R/emacs) via an x-win 32 window
> it replaces the per mille symbol with a /211.
> R then produces the character (not a per mille symbol!)
> that can be found in the equivalent place
> using character.table() in the Hmisc package.  I'd use
> windows, except we have huge output datasets generated
> by a climate model, and its not possible to move it to a machine
> running windows.
> 
> Any other suggestions are welcome!,


If postscript output is sufficient, the following trick should work ...

postscript(encoding="WinAnsi.enc")
plot(1:10, ylab="\211")
dev.off()

Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Lecoutre [mailto:lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be]
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:54
> To: FISCHER, Matthew; 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
> Subject: Re: [R] special symobol / character
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> Most systems allow to enter any ASCII (or extended ASCII) character 
> directly using a key combination.
> Accessing ANSI charcaters under Windows is possible with:
> ALT+0xxx (press ALT, hold it down, press 0 and the number of the character, 
> release ALT)
> Thus: ALT+0137 makes: ?
> The future seems promising with the Unicode support: kudo R core team!
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> At 08:23 15/02/2005, FISCHER, Matthew wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>    Is it possible to add a permil (or per mille) symbol to
>>an R plot (I couldn't find this symbol under demo(Hershey) or
>>the plotmath information).
>>
>>In some ascii tables it is symbol no. 137.
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>Matt.
>>
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