On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Michael R. Head wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:11 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Michael R. Head wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:15 -0400, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
Thanks Henrique. We need to use the tilde in formula statements as in,
lm(y ~ x)
Any ideas?
Does windows still let you hold down the right alt-key and type ascii
character codes on the number pad?
At least on my machine, only the Alt (left, not AltGr on the right) works.
I believe that in some US keyboard layouts AltGr is missing and there are
two Alt keys.
The uses of AltGr in Microsoft keyboard layouts can be found at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP052590631033.aspx
Cool. This isn't what I was referring to, though.
You are right that standard US keyboards do not have an AltGr key (I've
never seen such a keyboard in the US, only in Europe and possibly in
Canada). On DOS for many years (and I believe this carries through with
Windows) on a US keyboard, you could hold the right Alt key down and
type in the decimal value of the ASCII code on the numeric keypad for
whatever character you wished. I don't know if this was/is possible with
a non-US keyboard.
Let me repeat: no, but holding down any Alt key (usually only one) and
typing in the decimal value of the ASCII code on the numeric keypad
(preferably with a leading zero) works AFAIK. Note that whether a key is
Alt or AltGr might be decided by the software and not by the etching on
the keyboard.
This Q was about a Spanish keyboard, not a US one, and I was trying to
answer the question about a Spanish keyboard. That's not a unique concept
(it might not mean 'as sold in Spain' but 'as used in a Spanish-speaking
locale like Costa Rica or Florida') but all such keyboards my wife or I
have used have AltGr.
The AltGr key does seem much more handy for entering unkeyed characters.
If so, you should be able to hold down Right-Alt and type 1, 2, 6 on the
number pad to get a tilde out of the keyboard.
On Aug 12, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
You want the tilde on R?
If yes, you want do this:
plot(1, xlab = "\u0303")
plot(1, xlab = "\u00c3")
plot(1, xlab = "\u00D1")
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