[R] permil symbol linux

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You still have not sent the information requested in the posting 
guide, and I do not know your target device nor locale, nor is that a 
reproducible example.

Please learn some respect for the time of the helpers here (and for 
all the work that went into making this possible in R).

On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, mathew brown wrote:

> Good point.
>
> Here is the code
> plot(dat$timestamp,dat$delta_18_16, ylab="", xlab="(min)", tck=0.05, col="blue")
> mtext(side=2, line=1.5, expression(""*delta*""^18*"O [\u0089]"), cex=1, adj=0.5)
>
> I'm still not sure how to get your code to work.

Unsurprising, as you have not seen *my* code.

> thanks
>
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:45:49 +0100 (BST)
> Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, mathew brown wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out how to make a plot with ylab showing the
>>> permil symbol. Anyone know how to do this?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Now, it you would follow the posting guide and give the 'at a minimum'
>> information you were asked for, and the graphics device you want to
>> use, we might be able to tell you more precisely how.
>>
>> Hint: that symbol is "\u0089", and also in latin-1.
>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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> Mathew Brown
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595