[R] tilde on a spanish keyboard?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Michael R. Head wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:15 -0400, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
>> Thanks Henrique. We need to use the tilde in formula statements as in,
>> lm(y ~ x)
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Does windows still let you hold down the right alt-key and type ascii
> character codes on the number pad?

At least on my machine, only the Alt (left, not AltGr on the right) works.
I believe that in some US keyboard layouts AltGr is missing and there are 
two Alt keys.

My wife has a Spanish keyboard loaded, and using On-screen Keyboard it 
shows that AltGr+5 is ~.  There are several different Spanish keyboards 
and the one with Euro seems to be AltGr+4, so bring up On-screen Keyboard 
(Accessories->Accessibility), click on the right Alt key and look at the 
layout.

The uses of AltGr in Microsoft keyboard layouts can be found at

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP052590631033.aspx



>
> If so, you should be able to hold down Right-Alt and type 1, 2, 6 on the
> number pad to get a tilde out of the keyboard.
>
>> On Aug 12, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
>>> You want the tilde on R?
>>>
>>> If yes, you want do this:
>>>
>>> plot(1, xlab = "\u0303")
>>> plot(1, xlab = "\u00c3")
>>> plot(1, xlab = "\u00D1")
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/12/08, Martin Henry H. Stevens <HStevens at muohio.edu> wrote:
>>>> I was trying to help someone who used a spanish keyboard on a PC
>>>> running
>>>> Windows. he discovered that he had no tilde key. Does anyone know
>>>> of any
>>>> simple work-arounds?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Hank
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Hank Stevens, Associate Professor
>>>> 338 Pearson Hall
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>>>> Miami University
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>>>
>>>
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>>> Henrique Dallazuanna
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>>
>> Dr. Hank Stevens, Associate Professor
>> 338 Pearson Hall
>> Botany Department
>> Miami University
>> Oxford, OH 45056
>>
>> Office: (513) 529-4206
>> Lab: (513) 529-4262
>> FAX: (513) 529-4243
>> http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenmh/
>> http://www.users.muohio.edu/harkesae/
>> http://www.cas.muohio.edu/ecology
>> http://www.muohio.edu/botany/
>> "E Pluribus Unum"
>>
>> "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
>>                                              (Douglas Adams)
>>
>>
>> If you send an attachment, please try to send it in a format anyone
>> can read, such as PDF, text, Open Document Format, HTML, or RTF.
>> Why? See:  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>>
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>>
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> Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
> http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike/
>

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