Thank you all for the input. That helps, although I haven’t get the exact
solution..
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On Thu, 12/18/14, Chel Hee Lee <chl...@mail.usask.ca> wrote:
Subject: Re: [R] Add encoded special characters (greek characters) as text to
plot
To: "Jeff Newmiller" <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>, "heyi xiao"
<xiaohey...@yahoo.com>, "heyi xiao via R-help" <r-help@r-project.org>
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2014, 3:43 PM
Why don't you try
this approach if you cannot use 'expression()'?
> x <-
c("alpha", "beta", "gamma",
"delta")
> plot(0,
type="n")
> for(i in
1:length(x)) text(x=1, y=i/10, labels=parse(text=x[i]))
Please see the output in R.
Is this what you are looking for? I hope
this helps. I would also appreciate it if you
would provide
reproducible examples next
time.
Chel Hee Lee
On 12/18/2014 11:48 AM, Jeff
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December 18, 2014 8:59:47 AM PST, heyi xiao via R-help
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wrote:
>> anybody has any hint on
this?
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Subject: Add encoded special
characters (greek characters) as text to
>> plot
>> To: r-help@r-project.org
>> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2014,
9:25 PM
>>
>>
Dear all,
>> I read my a character
matrix from a text file. Some of them
>> have greek characters. To reserve the
special characters, I
>> used
stringsAsFactors=F using read.table. I notice that I
>> can’t print these character string
using print(), but I
>> can use
cat():
>>>
print("LC\246\302")
>> [1]
"LC\246\302"
>>>
cat("LC\246\302\n")
>>
LCβ
>>
>> The
problem is when I add text to my output plot like:
>> text(x,y,
labels="LC\246\302")
>>
>> I got "LC.. " on my plot.
Obviously text function doesn’t
>>
know what’s "\246\302". I google that encoding,
and
>> can’t find exact what that
is. It doesn’t look like
>> ascii or
Unicode. Anybody knows what that is?
>> Note that I can’t use expression()
method to pass these
>> special
characters because these are read from a text file,
>> I just can’t include greek
characters manually that way.
>> Is
there a way that I can output these strings with special
>> characters automatically?
>> Thank you!
>>
Heyi
>>
>>
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