[ESS] umlauts in graphics

Heinz Tuechler tuechler at gmx.at
Thu Dec 15 23:53:19 CET 2005


At 19:37 15.12.2005 +0100, Christian Montel wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've got a problem stuffing umlauts into my r graphics (please don't be 
>too angry if I missed the correct answer somewhere in the archives....).
>
>Here's a minimal example:
>
>DatMat <- rbind(c(67.42,91.24),c(67.14,90.81))
>graphic <- barplot(DatMat,
>                   beside=TRUE,
>                   names.arg=c("Überlauf","Ärgernis"),
>                   main="Übertitel",
>                   ylim=c(0,100)
>                   )
>
>
>That snippet works fine in the R console (2.2.0), meaning it displays 
>the umlauts. Using Ess 5.2.11, the umlauts are quoted by squares in the 
>graphic. I use Emacs 21.3.1 and Windows2000. Can anyone give me a hint?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Christian
>
For me your code does work, but I had a similar problem with labels
containing umlaute. I resolved it with the following line in my .customs.emacs

(setq process-coding-system-alist '(("[rR]" undecided-dos . latin-1)))

Heinz
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