[R] tilde on a spanish keyboard?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Since as long as I can remember, on Windows there is something called
"Alt [Key Numeric] Codes", which allows you to enter many symbols that
are not directly accessible via a single key, cf.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_codes

For lists of Alt codes, see for instance

  http://www.usefulshortcuts.com/alt-codes/

You find the code for 'tilde' at:

  http://www.usefulshortcuts.com/alt-codes/punctuation-alt-codes.php

For instance, to enter a 'tilde', press 'Alt' at the same time as your
type '1', '2', '6' on the *numeric keypad* on your keyboard, then
release 'Alt'.

Another examples, is Alt + '6', '5', which generates upper case 'A'.

Note that it has to be on the numeric keypad (often to the right of
the keyboard), the "regular" keys 1 to 0 on the top will not do.  If
you have a laptop without a numeric keypad, you typically have the
option via a "Fn key" + "NmLk" (or similar) to turn part of the
keyboard into a numeric keypad.

Disclaimer: I guess, depending on you locale (language settings) some
keycodes might come out differently, but I am quite sure that all code
between 0-127 will work all over the world.

My $.02

Henrik


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> The try this:
>
> form <- as.formula('x\u007ey')
> lm(form)
>
> On 8/12/08, Martin Henry H. Stevens <HStevens at muohio.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks Henrique. We need to use the tilde in formula statements as in,
>> lm(y ~ x)
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> On Aug 12, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
>> > You want the tilde on R?
>> >
>> > If yes, you want do this:
>> >
>> > plot(1, xlab = "\u0303")
>> > plot(1, xlab = "\u00c3")
>> > plot(1, xlab = "\u00D1")
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8/12/08, Martin Henry H. Stevens <HStevens at muohio.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I was trying to help someone who used a spanish keyboard on a PC running
>> > > Windows. he discovered that he had no tilde key. Does anyone know of any
>> > > simple work-arounds?
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Hank
>> > >
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>> Dr. Hank Stevens, Associate Professor
>> 338 Pearson Hall
>> Botany Department
>> Miami University
>> Oxford, OH 45056
>>
>> Office: (513) 529-4206
>> Lab: (513) 529-4262
>> FAX: (513) 529-4243
>> http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenmh/
>> http://www.users.muohio.edu/harkesae/
>> http://www.cas.muohio.edu/ecology
>> http://www.muohio.edu/botany/
>> "E Pluribus Unum"
>>
>> "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
>>                                            (Douglas Adams)
>>
>>
>> If you send an attachment, please try to send it in a format anyone can
>> read, such as PDF, text, Open Document Format, HTML, or RTF.
>> Why? See:
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Henrique Dallazuanna
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> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O
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