[R] Is it possible to "right align" text in R graphics?

[Bert Gunter]

Tal:

Does the "adj" argument for ?par (and also in text()) not do this for you?

Incidentally, gMail (on Windows) correctly rendered the Hebrew
("Shalom Olam"), so it would seem that this probably is a plotting
issue rather than an OS issue. However, I confess that my knees turn
to jelly with discussions of locales and non-"standard:" fonts, so
maybe I'm wrong about this.

Cheers,
Bert

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Tal Galili <tal.galili at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the reply Jean, but no, it would not fix it :)
>
> plot(1:10, main=rev.string("שלום (עולם)"))
>
> What would "fix" it is if I had added a number after the parenthesis, but
> that is a hack, not a solution...
> plot(1:10, main="שלום (עולם) 1")
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> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Jean V Adams <jvadams at usgs.gov> wrote:
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>>
>> Tal Galili wrote on 12/29/2011 10:52:55 AM:
>>
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > The following line of code includes a right-to-left language text, yet
>> the
>> > R graphics engine displays it from left to right.  One problem this
>> causes
>> > is when there are parenthesis in the test, here is a basic example?
>> >
>> > plot(1:10, main = "×©×œ×•× (טקסט)")
>>
>> >
>> > Is there a way to make sure the text is displayed from right to left?
>> >
>> > Many thanks for any suggestions,
>> > Tal
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>> I'm not sure if this is what you're after, but this function reverses the
>> string, character by character and swaps parentheses around.
>>
>> rev.string <- function(x) {
>>         revx.indiv <- rev(unlist(strsplit(x, "")))
>>         revx.indiv2 <- revx.indiv
>>         revx.indiv2[revx.indiv=="("] <- ")"
>>         revx.indiv2[revx.indiv==")"] <- "("
>>         paste(revx.indiv2, collapse="")
>>         }
>> plot(1:10, main=rev.string("ש×?×?× (×?קס×?)"))
>>
>>
>> Jean
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