[R] \ll and \gg in expression()
Michael Kubovy
kubovy at virginia.edu
Sat Feb 9 23:30:35 CET 2008
On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Michael Kubovy wrote:
>
>> How do I enter 'much greater than' and 'much less than' symbols in
>> an
>> expression?
>
> Those are not in the Adobe Symbol encoding used for plotmath.
>
> Since you have not told us your platform and locale as requested in
> the posting guide
R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-02-05 r44340)
i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
locale:
C
> I don't know if the following is relevant to you.
>
> If you have a suitable Unicode font and the means to use it (which
> most likely means a UTF-8 locale in R < 2.7.0) they are the glyphs
> for "\u226a" and "\u226b" (see http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/mathematical_operators.html)
> . A quick check suggests that not many fonts do.
Thanks. The Mac character palette tells me that they correspond to
Unicode 226A and B or UTF8 E2 89 AA and AB.
My question now is, how do I tell expression() to use the glyphs for
these?
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