[R] French accents on characters

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 04/08/2010 3:40 PM, Jennifer Young wrote:
> Hello
>
> Could someone please direct me to the correct commands for adding accents
> (grave and aigu) to a letter in a plot title, label, or in added text? I'm
> sure there's a handy list somewhere, but I've failed in coming up with the
> correct search words to find it.

You may have trouble with particular graphics devices not supporting the 
fonts, but if you just enter text containing accents, you should see 
them.  For example,

plot(1, main="La probabilité est façile")

If your keyboard doesn't have accents you can enter accented characters 
using Unicode strings, e.g. the same result as above comes from

plot(1, main="La probabilit\uE9 est fa\uE7ile")

(You can use \u{E9} instead of \uE9 if it is ambiguous where the 
character ends.)

Duncan Murdoch