[R] Plot dagger symbol in R

[baptiste auguie]

Hi,

If all else fails, you could consider using LaTeX itself with psfrag,  
or perhaps a similar idea involving eps2pgf.

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/PsFrag

Hope this helps,

baptiste

On 29 Jan 2009, at 11:24, Rau, Roland wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to plot the dagger symbol in R (like LaTeX's \dagger).
> However, I was unable to do so.
>
> First, I thought maybe dagger actually exists just like the degree
> symbol:
>
> plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
> text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(degree))
>
> plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
> text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(dagger))
>
> However, this was not very successful. New hope emerged that I will
> succeed when I read the help page (as so often) for ?plotmath.
> There I discovered the 'symbol' thing and read that the Adobe Symbol
> font encodings are used. The closest thing I could fine, though, was:
>
> plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
> text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(symbol("\247")))
>
> But this is obviously not a dagger and it seems the Adobe Symbol font
> does not have a dagger.
>
> We also know this :-D
>
> library(fortunes)
> fortune("Yoda")
>
> So maybe someone can give me some advice?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Roland
>
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