[R] How to handle Chinese character in R plot?

Jinsong Zhao jszhao at yeah.net
Fri Oct 12 05:01:01 CEST 2012


On 2012-10-12 10:16, Manish Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on Chinese language plot.
>
> But names and labels are in chinese language. How can i print chineese
> characters as lable in R plot.
>
>
> 名称	类	学生
> 木材	2	2
> 表	3	4
> 笔	4	2
> 垃圾桶	5	6
> 杯	6	3
>
> like we can do in excel as shown below in image.
> <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4645950/Screenshot.png>
>
> Regards
>

try the following code:

x <- read.csv(textConnection("
名称,类,学生
木材,2,2
表,3,4
笔,4,2
垃圾桶,5,6
杯,6,3"), header = TRUE)
rownames(x) <- x[,1]
x <- x[,-1]
barplot(t(x), horiz = TRUE, beside = TRUE, legend.text = TRUE)

HIH,

Regards,
Jinsong




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