R help - Feb 2007 - Proper way to typeset the symbol for R in LaTeX?

Hoping this is not off topic...

I am in the process of writing some tutorials for my students for  
learning R, and naturally I'm using Sweave for this. So suddenly a  
question occurred to me: LaTeX has a recommended way of typesetting  
the TeX and LaTeX symbols, via the \TeX and \LaTeX commands. Is there  
a similar command for the R symbol, or in general are there any  
guidelines/recommendations on how to typeset the letter R when  
referring to the  R language?

Haris

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 11:02 -0500, Charilaos Skiadas
wrote:
> Hoping this is not off topic...
> 
> I am in the process of writing some tutorials for my students for  
> learning R, and naturally I'm using Sweave for this. So suddenly a  
> question occurred to me: LaTeX has a recommended way of typesetting  
> the TeX and LaTeX symbols, via the \TeX and \LaTeX commands. Is there  
> a similar command for the R symbol, or in general are there any  
> guidelines/recommendations on how to typeset the letter R when  
> referring to the  R language?
> 
> Haris
There is a Rnews.sty file on CRAN at:

  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews.sty

However, the key code is really:

  \newcommand{\R}{R}

which is then used in LaTeX as:

  The use of \R{} ...

It is essentially a capital R in the default serif font.

BTW, if you need the full citation for R, just use citation() in a R
session.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz