[R] How to Include greek symbol in axis label?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Kenneth Takagi wrote:

> Thanks for your help.  I tried par(family="serif") and it worked well. 
> I'm running R 2.6.1, on windows XP machine.  font=6 appears to be 
> similar to times new roman or serif, they appear to be very similar (to 
> my untrained eye).  Serif seems to work fine for my needs!

It is 'Times New Roman' unless you altered it: see etc/Rdevga.  And that 
is what 'serif' maps to

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> Ken
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Sat 2/23/2008 2:05 AM
> To: Kenneth Takagi
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] How to Include greek symbol in axis label?
>
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Kenneth Takagi wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm fairly new to R, so hopefully this is an easy question...
>
> Sorry, no as you haven't given us the minimum information asked for in the
> posting guide and we are reduced to attempted mind reading.
>
> What is 'font=6'?
>
> R only has font = 1 to 5.  There is an extension on the windows() device
> only (but you have not mentioned an OS): nowadays the use of
> par(family=) is preferred.  So a likely answer is to use
> par(family="serif")
>
> BTW, this is not a 'greek character'.  It is the mathematical symbol phi,
> and that is distinct from the Greek character, and not in whatever
> 'font=6' is.
>
>> On a plot, I would like to have the y label read: "Response(phi)"  with
>> phi = the greek character.  From old posts I've found this:
>>
>> title(ylab=expression(paste("Response (", phi, ")")))
>>
>> This displays nicely, but in the default font.  I would like to use
>> font=6 (which is the font of the other labels, title, etc.).  Is there
>> an way to display the y-label in font=6 and still include the greek
>> character?  Is there an easier way to do this?
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Ken
>> kat215 at psu.edu
>>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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