R help - Jul 2015 - Greek letters in column titles.

I would like to include a Greek letter in a column title, viz.  pB where B
should be the Greek letter beta, but I don't know how to do this. I know
about dimnames, but I don't know how to create the Greek letter.
Thank you,
John

John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric
Medicine
Baltimore VA Medical Center
10 North Greene Street
GRECC (BT/18/GR)
Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
(Phone) 410-605-7119
(Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) 


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x = data.frame( ? =1)

seems to work fine for me. Perhaps you need to give some more details about
what exactly the problem is.

Best,
Ista
On Jul 5, 2015 3:36 PM, "John Sorkin" <JSorkin at
grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
> I would like to include a Greek letter in a column title, viz.  pB where B
> should be the Greek letter beta, but I don't know how to do this. I
know
> about dimnames, but I don't know how to create the Greek letter.
> Thank you,
> John
>
> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
> Professor of Medicine
> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and
> Geriatric Medicine
> Baltimore VA Medical Center
> 10 North Greene Street
> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
> (Phone) 410-605-7119
> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
>
>
> Confidentiality Statement:
> This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:16}}

Warning: The following may be baloney, so confirmation or correction
by those more knowledgeable is required. But maybe this will get you
started/prove useful. Just beware.

1. First of all, as Ista said, this can be done, but it is heavily
system dependent as to how. Basically I think you want access to UTF-8
encodings, which any modern OS should support, but that access is
dependent on your system.

2. It also depends on where you want to display the results -- on
screen, into a pdf, or ? .

3. See also The man pages on ?unicode and ?iconv , as these may also
be relevant.

Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter

"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
   -- Clifford Stoll


On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com>
wrote:
> x = data.frame( ? =1)
>
> seems to work fine for me. Perhaps you need to give some more details about
> what exactly the problem is.
>
> Best,
> Ista
> On Jul 5, 2015 3:36 PM, "John Sorkin" <JSorkin at
grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>
>> I would like to include a Greek letter in a column title, viz.  pB
where B
>> should be the Greek letter beta, but I don't know how to do this. I
know
>> about dimnames, but I don't know how to create the Greek letter.
>> Thank you,
>> John
>>
>> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
>> Professor of Medicine
>> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
>> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and
>> Geriatric Medicine
>> Baltimore VA Medical Center
>> 10 North Greene Street
>> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
>> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
>> (Phone) 410-605-7119
>> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
>>
>>
>> Confidentiality Statement:
>> This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:16}}
>
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