

Hi Eric,

    Thanks for your speedy reply,  I should have noted
that I'm using a Linux machine.  However, when I copy
the symbol from Windows to Linux (using R/emacs) via an x-win 32 window
it replaces the per mille symbol with a /211.
R then produces the character (not a per mille symbol!)
that can be found in the equivalent place
using character.table() in the Hmisc package.  I'd use
windows, except we have huge output datasets generated
by a climate model, and its not possible to move it to a machine
running windows.

Any other suggestions are welcome!,

cheers,

Matt.



-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Lecoutre [mailto:lecoutre@stat.ucl.ac.be]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:54
To: FISCHER, Matthew; 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject: Re: [R] special symobol / character



Hi Matthew,

Most systems allow to enter any ASCII (or extended ASCII) character 
directly using a key combination.
Accessing ANSI charcaters under Windows is possible with:
ALT+0xxx (press ALT, hold it down, press 0 and the number of the character, 
release ALT)
Thus: ALT+0137 makes: ?
The future seems promising with the Unicode support: kudo R core team!

Eric


At 08:23 15/02/2005, FISCHER, Matthew wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>     Is it possible to add a permil (or per mille) symbol to
>an R plot (I couldn't find this symbol under demo(Hershey) or
>the plotmath information).
>
>In some ascii tables it is symbol no. 137.
>
>cheers,
>
>Matt.
>
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