[R-SIG-Mac] Plotting Chinese characters

[Alberto Pepe]

Thank you Simon,

it works fine now.

Alberto

2011/2/9 Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>:
> Alberto,
>
> you simply need a font that has those characters. For example on 10.6 this works:
>
> plot.new(); plot.window(0:1,0:1); text(0.5,0.5,"精市",cex=10,family="Hei")
>
> You may want to check your system for fonts that you can use (those that have chinese characters when you click on them in Font Book). There are a lot of fonts that work like STSong, STFangsong, LiSong Pro, AppleMyungjo, GungSeo etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Alberto Pepe wrote:
>
>> (reposting here, from r-help, as requested)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have read some of the documentation relative to character encodings
>> and non-standard fonts (including previous answered questions and the
>> 2006-2 R issue), but I am still struggling with very basic plotting of
>> Chinese text.
>>
>> I have a network, g, of Chinese characters (each node is a Chinese
>> character) and I can handle it and display it fine within R using
>> package igraph. However, when I try to plot this network, node names
>> do not display in the plot. I am trying to produce a visualization of
>> the character network, like this:
>>
>>> plot(g, layout=layout.fruchterman.reingold, vertex.color="black", vertex.size=2.0, edge.color="gray70", vertex.label=V(g)$name, edge.arrow.size=0.3)
>>
>> where g is a an igraph network:
>>
>>> g
>> Vertices: 199
>> Edges: 123
>> Directed: TRUE
>> Edges:
>>
>> [0]   '精' -> '神'
>> [1]   '市' -> '场'
>> [2]   '思' -> '想'
>> ...
>>
>> The names of the nodes (labels) do not display in the plot. I have
>> noted that this is not a problem linked to igraph or network
>> visualization. Even if I try to plot an empty chart with a title that
>> contains one of the chinese characters above, these characters do not
>> display.
>>
>> What is the simplest way to display these non-standard fonts in a R plot?
>>
>> I am using R for Mac OS X GUI 1.35-dev Leopard build 32-bit:
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] grid      tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils
>> datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] igraph_0.5.5-1
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alberto Pepe
>>
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