[R] all extended ASCII characters exist for R console output?

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:

> The glyphs displayed depend on the "terminal" you are using, which  
> may be operating-system dependent. Beware of assuming that other  
> people will see the same things you do in their consoles.
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On a Mac this:

 > cat("\u2591","\u2592","\u2593")
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Prints three rectangles of varying size and "density". This appears  
somewhat similar to what I see im my browser except for the noticeable  
variation in size.

-- 
David

> "Mark Heckmann" <mark.heckmann at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> just found it out.
>> to get an overview:
>>
>> for (i in 2590:3000)
>> 	cat(eval(parse(text=paste("\"\\u", i, "\"", sep=""))))
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>> Am 19.11.2010 um 17:24 schrieb Henrique Dallazuanna:
>>
>>> In the plot window:
>>>
>>> plot(1, main = "\u2591\u2592\u2593")
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark Heckmann
>>> <mark.heckmann at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> can the R console print all extended ASCII characters?
>>> I am especially interested in characters 176-178 from
>> http://www.asciitable.com/
>>> bottom table.
>>> As far as I know the character mapping in R is somewhat different
>>> (octal).
>>> So  as I am not familiar with these things I am not sure if it
>> exists.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> Mark
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David Winsemius, MD
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