[R] Plotting female and male signs

[Hans Gardfjell]

Dear R-users,

Just like other users (as seen from previous posts on the list), I would 
like to use female and male signs in plots. I found B. Ripley's post 
about using Unicode characters. However, it doesn't works for me.

 > text(locator(1),"\u2640")  produces the following error:
Error: invalid \uxxxx sequence

But I can specify other Unicode characters as long I don't exceed 00FF, 
so this works

 > text(locator(1),"\u00FF") or
 > text(locator(1),"\u00E6") and also without preceeding 00
 > text(locator(1),"\uE6")

Can someone give me a hint?
I'm using a Swedish locale on WindowsXP and my R version is 2.3.1 
Patched (2006-06-04 r38279)

Thanks,

Hans Gardfjell

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Hans Gardfjell
Ecology and Environmental Science
Umeå University
90187 Umeå, Sweden
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