[R] Decimal point as a comma in postcript and pdf graphics

[Christophe Declercq]

> De : r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de
> Peter Dalgaard
> Envoye : mercredi 9 mars 2005 15:19
>
>
> Ronny Klein <ronny.klein at wiwi.uni-halle.de> writes:

[...]
> > I would like to have a "comma" instead of a "point" as
> the decimal point in my
> > graphics, i.e. postscript and pdf files, for I write my
> thesis in German. My
[...]
>
> We don't have a way of formatting numbers according to
> LC_NUMERIC, as
> far as I know. This leaves it to you to set up axes etc. to your
> liking, e.g.
>
>  x <- rnorm(100,,.2)
>  p <- pretty(x)
>  hist(x,xaxt="n")
>  axis(1, at=p, labels=sub("\\.", ",", p))
>
> (and possibly throw in xlim=range(p) on the hist() call. Or use
> axTicks(), which is probably a better idea.)

When I need that, I use something like Peter but with the 'format'
function, for example:

  x <- rnorm(100,,.2)
  p <- pretty(x)
  hist(x,xaxt="n")
  axis(1, at=p, labels=format(pretty(x), decimal.mark=","))

Hope it helps.

Christophe
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>
> > Ronny
> >
> >
> > PS: The problem of displaying the German umlauts, I have
> already solved: I
> > have to use the WinAnsi.enc as the default encoding file.
> Which is odd in my
> > opinion.
>
> This should improve in 2.1.0 (or at least be broken in new and
> interesting ways) due to support for UTF-8 encodings.
>
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