[R] greek letters do not work in expression

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

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Em 30-07-2017 20:51, David Winsemius escreveu:
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>> On Jul 30, 2017, at 8:25 AM, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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>> On 30.07.2017 17:22, Milan Cisty wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> I appreciate suggestions for following problem. I wrote to RStudio:
>>> plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(paste(alfa)))
>>> or the same happen when I wrote:
>>> plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alfa))
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>> Write "alpha", not "alfa".
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> To Misty;
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> This makes me wonder if the internationalization of the R documentation is overly "aggressive" in changing the spelling of "Greek" letters to conform to local spellings. Does your ?plotmath page spell the first letter in the Greek alphabet as "alfa".

In portuguese we write alfa but the R documentation spells

alpha -- omega 	Greek symbols

Rui Barradas
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>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
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