Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > 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. > > Otherwise, a quick approximation could be expression(x~">>"~1). (We don't do negative thin space, do we? That could make it look better.)
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