[R] R Documentation(s)

Shigeru Mase mase at is.titech.ac.jp
Sat May 6 18:13:02 CEST 2000


Dear Paul, thank you for your kind informations on the use of
Japanese in R.

On Thu, 4 May 2000 10:03:39 +1200
"Paul Murrell" <paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

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

I found the hershey fonts in my system and could display Japanese fonts
using the plotfont command.

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

Sorry, I was wrong. I am using R ver. 0.90.1 (1999, December).
Is it possible if this is the source of troubles? I will try 
using R ver. 1.0.0 (from woody of Debian/GNU Linux package)
in near future.

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

Yes. The command "help(sum)" worked fine. But "help(Japanese)" returned

 Error in help(Japanese) : 
    No documentation for Japanese.

"help(Hershey)" returned a similar error message.

Yours, 

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Shigeru Mase <mase at is.titech.ac.jp>
  Dept. Math. and Comp. Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
  Oh-Okayama 2-12-1, Meguroku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan
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