[R] italic greek symbols

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:

> Thank you for this simple solution. It works well in R.app (R 2.5.1
> GUI 1.20 (4535) (4535)), but I can't figure out how to make it work
> in my Aquamacs+ESS.
> When I attempt to set the locale, I get an error message. Any
> thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "greek")
> [1] ""
> Warning message:
> OS reports request to set locale to "greek" cannot be honored in:
> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "greek")

You need to set a UTF-8 locale (and I believe that is all there are on 
MacOS, but of course it uses non-standard locale names: our MacOS box 
seems to be switched off so I cannot check easily).

>
> Cheers,
> Hank
>
> On Jul 31, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> I am using R 2.5.1 on a Mac OS X 10.4.9, via ESS.
>>>
>>> I would like to try to get an italic mu onto a plot axis label. I
>>> note that in a previous email,
>>> (Thu, 4 May 2006 19:41:41 +0100 (BST)), Brian Ripley wrote,
>>> "There is no italic symbol font available on most devices. So
>>> unless you
>>> try to plot Greek (not math symbol Greek) you are out of luck. "
>>>
>>> How does one plot Greek, or is there now another solution?
>>
>> Use the appropriate Unicode characters.  Lower case mu is \u03bc.
>> Whether this works depends on the device and locale (as I said before)
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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