[R] percentage sign in expression

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>It's possible that my help page is different than yours. Right after
>the syntax/meaning description on mine (which is a Mac OSX system) is
>a paragraph:
>
>"The symbol font uses Adobe Symbol encoding so, for example, a lower
>case mu can be obtained either by the special symbol mu or by
>symbol("m"). This provides access to symbols that have no special
>symbol name, for example, the universal, or forall, symbol is
>symbol("\042"). To see what symbols are available in this way
>useTestChars(font=5) as given in the examples for points: some are
>only available on some devices."
>
>(In this case I would be surprised if the help pages were different
>because this makes a cross-reference to the examples in points.  I am
>not surprised about cross-platform differences in descriptions of
>graphical devices  and would have included a caveat if I were
>corresponding on rhelp about such. I suppose the font issues could be
>platform specific so if you want to correct me on this point, I will
>try to file it away. I did, however, give you the code needed to to
>display Symbols and it sounds further on that it succeeded)
>
I agree and seems that in this example that the documentation for
graphical devices is platform dependent. This should be stated in the
manual if not already. Please see previous post for the errors trying
to apply the commands provided.