[R] tilde on a spanish keyboard?

[Michael R. Head]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:15 -0400, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
> Thanks Henrique. We need to use the tilde in formula statements as in,
> lm(y ~ x)
> 
> Any ideas?

Does windows still let you hold down the right alt-key and type ascii
character codes on the number pad? 

If so, you should be able to hold down Right-Alt and type 1, 2, 6 on the
number pad to get a tilde out of the keyboard.

> On Aug 12, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
> > You want the tilde on R?
> >
> > If yes, you want do this:
> >
> > plot(1, xlab = "\u0303")
> > plot(1, xlab = "\u00c3")
> > plot(1, xlab = "\u00D1")
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/12/08, Martin Henry H. Stevens <HStevens at muohio.edu> wrote:
> >> I was trying to help someone who used a spanish keyboard on a PC  
> >> running
> >> Windows. he discovered that he had no tilde key. Does anyone know  
> >> of any
> >> simple work-arounds?
> >> Thanks,
> >> Hank
> >>
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> Dr. Hank Stevens, Associate Professor
> 338 Pearson Hall
> Botany Department
> Miami University
> Oxford, OH 45056
> 
> Office: (513) 529-4206
> Lab: (513) 529-4262
> FAX: (513) 529-4243
> http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenmh/
> http://www.users.muohio.edu/harkesae/
> http://www.cas.muohio.edu/ecology
> http://www.muohio.edu/botany/
> "E Pluribus Unum"
> 
> "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
>                                              (Douglas Adams)
> 
> 
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