On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Michael Kubovy wrote: > > 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?
"\u226a" and "\u226b", as I said. But not in a C locale. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
