[R] how to write symbol (nabla) in R graph

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Nuno Prista wrote:

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> Dear all,
>
> I still need help (I am a newbie to R).
>
> I looked on the plotmath help and could not find how Unicode can be used.
> And I am in a Windows platform which I don't know if it is relevant. Can
> anyone help? Here is a simple example
>
> plot(1:10,1:10)
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> can anyone provide the code to insert a "nabla" anywhere on it?
>
> thanks
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Dieter Menne
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:03 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] how to write symbol (nabla) in R graph
>
> Nuno Prista <nmprista <at> fc.ul.pt> writes:
>
>>
>> Can anyone of you tell me how to write a "nabla" symbol in an R graph?
>>
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> I have not tested it, but according to
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/manual/html_chapter/plotutils_10.html
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>
> nabla is Unicode [0321]
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> Check documentation on plothmath how to use it.
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> Note: the documents cited in plotmath are huge, and it would be nice to have
> something like the gnu-reference I google for a short list.
>
> Dieter
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