[R] Plot dagger symbol in R

Mark Difford
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:50:09 -0000

Hi Roland,

>> But this is obviously not a dagger and it seems the Adobe Symbol font
>> does not have a dagger.

True, but ... Yoda was here.

plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression("\u2020"))
text(x=0.4, y=0.6, labels=expression("\u2021"))

?plotmath, sub "Other symbols" ... "Any Unicode character can
be...."

Regards, Mark.

PS: Works under Windows Vista, but ...


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?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Roland
>
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