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This was reported to me by a colleague in China, so I may not be reproducing exactly what they are seeing (which I suspect is rw2011), but this is what I see: > version _ platform i386--netbsdelf arch i386 os netbsdelf system i386, netbsdelf status major 2 minor 1.1 year 2005 month 06 day 20 language R > help(Hershey) : : If the 'vfont' argument

In Splus, if I wanted to use Bookman-Demi instead of the default Helvetica, I would specify font = 18 as a graphical parameter for a postscript printer. In R it seems font can take only the values 1 to 4 which change only the style but it's still Helvetica. There's some great flexibility using Hershey vector fonts, but it appears they are all mono-spaced. I wish to use proportional

Dear R experts- I'm running R 1.2.3 (2001-04-26) on Linux. I need to get special symbols, such as a circle with a dot in it as used to indicate Solar units in astronomy, into my plot axis labels. How can I do this? Using the R documentation on the Hershey font sets, one can plot a Solar symbol within the world coordinates of a plot like this: >plot(1:10,1:10)

Hi I just realized that when I use linear regression to draw a line through my data points with something like the following: abline(lm(y ~ x)) the length of the line is infinite, i.e., the line goes beyond the smallest and the largest data values. This seems not very right to me (not to mention it looks unaesthetic). I do not mean to imply that the straight-line behavior of my system is

Hi, I am trying to plot multiple lines on one plot such that all lines are of the same color (black) and continuous. I need to distinguish these multiple plots from each other by using different symbols (I am using pch=). However, all my lines are broken on both sides of the symbols. This unfortunate (and unsightly) behavior seems to be the default. In my search of the help archives for R over

Hi Everyone, I have two very basic questions and would appreciate your help. 1. I would like to see/access the data that comes with a given R package by using a function like read.table(). For example, I just installed car package from CRAN. I know that somewhere within the package, there is Duncan.txt file. I would not only like to look at it from file browser (or using ls command in shell) but

Hello R users, I am new to R, so this may be a very stupid question. I need to subscript the dotted circle (Hershey escape sequence "\\SO") to a string. I tried using text(.5,.5,substitute( R[disk] == 5 R["\\SO"] ) ) but it turns out to be a syntax error. Do you have any suggestion? Thanks Gaetano

I have been trying to figure out how to get superscript/subscript in the main title for a plot. I have tried various approaches and suggestions but none of them work. I am trying to get the following as the main title of my plot: Emission of CO2 with time (but note that 2 is subscript.) I have tried plot(main="Emission of C"expression(O[2]) "with time") and I get error

Hi I have patched together (from various sources) the following code to get semi-logarithmic plot. Unfortunately, my labels come out also at intermediate places between 10^2, 10^3, 10^4 etc. Since I put the code together from various sources and do not understand fully how the code is working, I have not been able to get rid of the labels like 10^1.69897, 10^2.69897 etc. I would appreciate if

Hi All R guru's, A couple of simple questions which I cannot find answers to in "an introduction to R" or in the reference manuals. I am running R on Win95, and have plotted up quite a nice box and whisker plot: char<-read.table("n:/reddinm/grifpr~1/survey/char.txt") attach(char) boxplot(Al,Fe,OC,pH, range=0,xaxis=FALSE, ylab="Proportion of Unirigated

Hi Everyone, I am trying to understand the unstack() function but after struggling for two days, I have given up. More specifically, I am trying the exercises at the end of Chapter 1 of Data Analysis and Graphics Using R by Maindonald and Braun, 2nd ed. Exercise 18 (p. 41) asks to unstack the Rabbit data frame from the MASS package to get a certain data frame that is shown in the exercise.

I wonder if we couldn't just use the PNG , SVG, support from the GNU plotutils from which we already have the Hershey scalable vector fonts [-> help(Hershey)] The new plotutils (July 2000) do support these (and will probably even better in the future, i.e., we can build on others people free software. Paul [who built "Hershey" into R], do you think this path is worth pursuing?

Hi, I'd like to know if it is possible to use Hershey vector fonts to create very primitive musical notation. If I can hang some whole notes on these lines X11() plot(0,0, xlim=c(0,10), ylim=c(0,10)) # Staves: for (i in c(seq(from=2,to=2.8,by=0.2),seq(from=4,to=4.8,by=0.2))) { abline(h=i) } it is enough. Best wishes, Atte Tenkanen University of Turku, Finland

Dear R users, I would like to use sub- and super-script in axis labels. I assume this is best done using Hershey symbols. When trying to find information on using Hershey font symbols in axis labels, I came across the following discussion thread: http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/02a/1857.html Have Hershey font implementations moved on since then? Thanks, Sander. --

Hey, Does anyone know of an equivalent to the LaTeX \perp (perpendicular) symbol for adding to R plots? Parallel is easy enough ("||"), but I haven't been able to find a way of adding perpendicular. The plotmath documentation doesn't mention how to do it, so I'm inclined to think that it doesn't exist - but surely there must be some way of achieving the desired result,

Hi Everyone, I am new R user and am trying to learn by reading the online manual "An Introduction to R" from the R web site. I am trying to practice using the scan() function as explained in the manual. For this I first created three vectors (one a character vector and two numeric one) and saved file "input.dat" in my working directory as: > label <- c("Bill",

Hi Everyone, I am a beginner running R 2.9.2 under Ubuntu and typically use Emacs w/ESS. However, I am confused with history() command. When I issue command history() in Emacs within an R session, this is what get: > history() Error in savehistory(file) : no history available to save Similarly, history(max=10) command gives the same error message. However, there is this In/Out Menu in the

Hi, In the FAQ I read about options to specify different fonts than the default ones for the console (in the file Rprofile) and for the graphical output (Rdevga). I would however like to replace Latin 1 with Latin 2 enconding for both (console and graphical) output in Windows and just graphical output in Linux. I guess it is possible but I did not find the way. How can I use the fonts

Hi All, I am preparing a few plots for publication. Unfortunately the journal requires figures to have all text in a sans serif fonts. I realise that there is support for the use of Hershey vector fonts in the function TEXT, but how do I get the text on axes to be sans serif? For example, the labels and axis values produced from this line of code: plot(SolPC, SorbPC, ylab="Sorbed P

This is a solution I am posting for a problem that others may have. If you want to: 1. Place lattice graphics from R into an Adobe InDesign document, and 2. Use the export as eps function in R to maximize resolution (it is much better than exporting as a metafile or bitmap), and 3. Use long strings of text in your titles or captions or to label your axes. Then you will have problems because: