Dear R-people:
 
François Michonneau's method to obtain the special character plus/minus works on Windows 2000 professional.
 
Many Thanks to François for his work!
 
Phil Smith
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA

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From: François MICHONNEAU [mailto:francois.michonneau@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:58 PM
To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Smith, Phil
Subject: Re: [R] Special characters: plus/minus


Hello,

You can obtain the special character plus/minus by a copy from the MS Windows "Character Table" and paste it in the R console or in your text editor as (NotePad or Emacs). Then, you can use it in your script:
x <- 5
y <- 0.25
paste (x, "±", y)

Cheers

François Michonneau


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