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Dear R-experts---is there a relatively low-pain way to get unicode characters into a plot to a pdf device? pdf(file="cardsymbols.pdf") plot( 0, xlim=c(0,5), ylim=c(0,5), type="n") text(1,1, "♠") text(2,2, "♥") text(3,3, "♦") text(4,4, "♣") dev.off() (these are the characters that I need the most NOW, but this is a more generic...

...on this group... library(Cairo) clubs <- expression(symbol('\247')) hearts <- expression(symbol('\250')) diamonds <- expression(symbol('\251')) spades <- expression(symbol('\252')) csymbols <- c(clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades) CairoPDF(file = "cardsymbols.pdf") plot( 0, xlim=c(0,5), ylim=c(0,2), type="n" ) clr <- c("black", "red", "red", "black") for (i in 1:4) { hline <- function( yloc, ... ) for (i in 1:length(yloc)) lines( c(-1,6), c(yloc[i],yloc[i]), col="gray") hline(0...