[R] Special characters in an R package manual

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Do you mean in the .Rd files of your package?

On 23/05/2012 08:04, Özgür Asar wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have some trouble with special characters while building my R package. I
> tried to follow the usual LATEX format, but could not fix the problem:
>
> For instance, for "greater than or equal", I tried "\geq", but R says that
> this is an unknown macro.
>
> Could anyone direct me how to solve this issue?

Use \eqn for mathematical expressions: see 'Writing R Extensions'.  The 
Rd language is not LaTeX, but LaTeX can be used in the first expression 
of \eqn.

>
> Best
> Ozgur
>
> Ozgur ASAR
> Research Assistant
> Middle East Technical University
> Department of Statistics
> 06531, Ankara Turkey
> Ph: 90-312-2105309
> http://www.stat.metu.edu.tr/people/assistants/ozgur/


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