[R] Plotting female and male signs

[Torsten Hothorn]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Hans Gardfjell wrote:

> Dear R-users,
>
> Just like other users (as seen from previous posts on the list), I would
> like to use female and male signs in plots. I found B. Ripley's post
> about using Unicode characters. However, it doesn't works for me.
>
> > text(locator(1),"\u2640")  produces the following error:
> Error: invalid \uxxxx sequence
>
> But I can specify other Unicode characters as long I don't exceed 00FF,
> so this works
>
> > text(locator(1),"\u00FF") or
> > text(locator(1),"\u00E6") and also without preceeding 00
> > text(locator(1),"\uE6")
>
> Can someone give me a hint?
> I'm using a Swedish locale on WindowsXP and my R version is 2.3.1
> Patched (2006-06-04 r38279)

Hans,

R> edit(vignette("Ch_logistic_regression_glm", package = "HSAUR"))

(you need to install package `HSAUR') has an example, specifically the 
line

text(womensrole$education, y, ifelse(f, "\\VE", "\\MA"), vfont =
      c("serif", "plain"), cex = 1.25)

uses Hershey fonts, see ?Hershey

Torsten

>
> Thanks,
>
> Hans Gardfjell
>
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