On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 11:51 +0100, e-letter wrote: > Readers, > > Previous questions about this requirement have been for m$ users, my > failure occurs using linux. > > I have tried to add the delta (δ) symbol to the y axis label and the > result is &D, using the command: > > ...ylab="δt"...
Works for me on Fedora 11 with the font packages mentioned in R Installation and Admin manual. > sessionInfo() R version 2.9.1 Patched (2009-08-07 r49104) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > Any advice please? plot(1:10, ylab = expression(delta*t)) ?plotmath If your question is rather why doesn't the "δ" glyph you enter at the keyboard show up in the plot, I'm afraid I can't help. Perhaps something to do with UTF-8 and locales and the available symbol set on the device you are plotting on, but you'll need to provide more information (of the sort requested in the posting guide) on your system and set-up. HTH G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
