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[Paul Murrell]

hi


> 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.


two things:
(i)  the hershey vector fonts are from the GNU plotutils package - i.e.,
someone else did all the hard work; we just connected it to R :)
(ii)  since I do not have a Japanese keyboard (and do not know Japanese !)
this stuff has not been extensively tested.  It will be good to have someone
use it so that we can make sure it is working properly.


> 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?


You should only require the standard R package.

Apologies if these are silly questions, but just in case ...
(i)  did you type help(Hershey) from the R command-line ?
(ii)  do you have the help installed ?  e.g., what do you get
if you type help(sum) ?

Hershey fonts are vector fonts (i.e., the characters are defined
by a set of points;  the characters can be drawn by just joining
the points by straight lines).  The Hershey character definitions
are included in the standard R distribution.

paul



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