On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Dieter Menne wrote:
Nuno Prista <nmprista <at> fc.ul.pt> writes:
Can anyone of you tell me how to write a "nabla" symbol in an R graph?
We need to know what is meant by 'nabla':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabla_symbol tries to disambiguate.
I have not tested it,
so others are left to find your errors for you.
but according to
http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/manual/html_chapter/plotutils_10.html
nabla is Unicode [0321]
U+0321 is COMBINING PALATALIZED HOOK BELOW ! You have misread that
document, which is about Hershey encodings not Unicode.
Check documentation on plothmath how to use it.
Perhaps you meant ?Hershey ?
Note: the documents cited in plotmath are huge, and it would be nice to have
something like the gnu-reference I google for a short list.
Like the reference
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/CM/AdobeSym.html
? The Gnuplot reference you cite does qualify as 'huge' and you have
demonstrated how unclear it is. ?plotmath has both the definitive
documentation and a reference to a short table (added by Paul Murrell at
my suggestion).
Steve Ellison's answer is Unicode U+2207 via the symbol font. That is
'Nabla' (capitalized) according to
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/mathematical_operators.html
although the Adobe glyph name is 'gradient'.
To summarize, do one of
Use \xd1 in font = 5
Use plotmath with symbol("\xd1") (or equivalent)
Use "\u2207" on systems that support UTF-8 (and with a font and graphics
device that supports this).
E.g.
plot(1:5, type="n")
text(1,1, "\xd1", font=5)
text(2,2, expression(symbol("\xd1")))
text(3,3, "\u2207")
Depending on the locale and graphics device (and version of R) each of
these may or may not work -- the first is probably the most reliable.
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