[R] Greek letters in column titles.

[Bert Gunter]

Warning: The following may be baloney, so confirmation or correction
by those more knowledgeable is required. But maybe this will get you
started/prove useful. Just beware.

1. First of all, as Ista said, this can be done, but it is heavily
system dependent as to how. Basically I think you want access to UTF-8
encodings, which any modern OS should support, but that access is
dependent on your system.

2. It also depends on where you want to display the results -- on
screen, into a pdf, or ? .

3. See also The man pages on ?unicode and ?iconv , as these may also
be relevant.

Cheers,
Bert
Bert Gunter

"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
   -- Clifford Stoll


On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> x = data.frame( β =1)
>
> seems to work fine for me. Perhaps you need to give some more details about
> what exactly the problem is.
>
> Best,
> Ista
> On Jul 5, 2015 3:36 PM, "John Sorkin" <JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>
>> I would like to include a Greek letter in a column title, viz.  pB where B
>> should be the Greek letter beta, but I don't know how to do this. I know
>> about dimnames, but I don't know how to create the Greek letter.
>> Thank you,
>> John
>>
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