Rau, Roland wrote:
Dear all,
I would like to plot the dagger symbol in R (like LaTeX's \dagger).
However, I was unable to do so.
First, I thought maybe dagger actually exists just like the degree
symbol:
plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(degree))
plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(dagger))
However, this was not very successful. New hope emerged that I will
succeed when I read the help page (as so often) for ?plotmath.
There I discovered the 'symbol' thing and read that the Adobe Symbol
font encodings are used. The closest thing I could fine, though, was:
plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(symbol("\247")))
But this is obviously not a dagger and it seems the Adobe Symbol font
does not have a dagger.
We also know this :-D
library(fortunes)
fortune("Yoda")
So maybe someone can give me some advice?
I think it will depend on your output device whether the character glyph
exists, but this works for me on a Mac:
plot(1, main="My dagger: \u2020")
Duncan Murdoch
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