[R] greek letters do not work in expression

[Uwe Ligges]

There is no internationalization of help pages, only of messages.

Best,
Uwe

On 30.07.2017 21:51, David Winsemius wrote:
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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".
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>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
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> David Winsemius
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