[R] R Documentation(s)

[Shigeru Mase]

Dear Paul,

It is surprising to know that R can already manage Japanese!
It is potentially a great news to Japanese R users.
We Japanese always have to make a fuss to be able
to use Japanese in various good free softwares and,
regretfully, our present R-jp members seem quite
ignorant of such expert skill.

I would like to ask Paul a little more information.  I am only
using R (ver. 1.0.0) in the Debian/GNU Linux package
(potato) and by no means understand all its details.

I tried to get an information by typing help(Hershey)
and help(Japanese), but in vain. Do I  need some
additional library (or something ), or should I  display
Japanese as is? Probably it is necessary to get
Hershey fonts (what is this?)  from somewhere, isn't it?

P.S. Sorry for my previous misleading email. What we
already translated into Japanese is "Notes on R".
Again it is a good news that we can have a Japanese
translation of a book on R in near future.

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Shigeru Mase <mase at is.titech.ac.jp>,
Dept. Math. and Comp. Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
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Paul Murrell wrote:

> hi
>
> In case you did not know already, ...
>
> It is possible to produce (some) Japanese text output in R
> using Hershey vector fonts.
>
> See help(text), help(Hershey) and help(Japanese).
>
> I would be interested to know whether this works with a
> Japanese keyboard (i.e., without having to specify
> long complicated escape sequences).
>
> I would also be interested to know whether the first page
> of example(Japanese) has the correct Japanese text !
>
> paul
>
> p.s.  please excuse my ignorance (and lack of understanding
> of how non-English encodings work), but are you able to get
> Japanese text output in R without using these vector fonts ?
>
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