On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Michael Kubovy wrote: > >> How do I enter 'much greater than' and 'much less than' symbols in >> an >> expression? > > Those are not in the Adobe Symbol encoding used for plotmath. > > Since you have not told us your platform and locale as requested in > the posting guide
R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-02-05 r44340) i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 locale: C > I don't know if the following is relevant to you. > > If you have a suitable Unicode font and the means to use it (which > most likely means a UTF-8 locale in R < 2.7.0) they are the glyphs > for "\u226a" and "\u226b" (see > http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/mathematical_operators.html) > . A quick check suggests that not many fonts do. Thanks. The Mac character palette tells me that they correspond to Unicode 226A and B or UTF8 E2 89 AA and AB. My question now is, how do I tell expression() to use the glyphs for these? _____________________________ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology USPS: P.O.Box 400400 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 Parcels: Room 102 Gilmer Hall McCormick Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 Office: B011 +1-434-982-4729 Lab: B019 +1-434-982-4751 Fax: +1-434-982-4766 WWW: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
