[R] Greek letters in column titles.

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On July 5, 2015 4:57:53 PM PDT, John Sorkin <jsorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>
>
> To clarify, what I would like to do is have the letter b in the column
>titles below print as the Greek letter beta.
>
>
>  dimnames(results) <-
>list(dimnames(results)[[1]],c("b0","SEb0","pb0","bRM0","SERMb0","pRMb0"))
> 
>  print(results)
>
>
>  John
>
>
>
>John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
>Professor of Medicine
>Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
>University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and
>Geriatric Medicine
>Baltimore VA Medical Center
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>>>> Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> 07/05/15 5:07 PM >>>
>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
>>>
>>> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
>>> Professor of Medicine
>>> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
>>> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology
>and
>>> Geriatric Medicine
>>> Baltimore VA Medical Center
>>> 10 North Greene Street
>>> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
>>> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
>>> (Phone) 410-605-7119410-605-7119
>>> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
>>>
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