> On Jul 30, 2017, at 8:25 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 30.07.2017 17:22, Milan Cisty wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I appreciate suggestions for following problem. I wrote to RStudio:
>> plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(paste(alfa)))
>> or the same happen when I wrote:
>> plot(c(1,20),c(1,20), xlab = expression(alfa))
> 
> Write "alpha", not "alfa".

To Misty;

This makes me wonder if the internationalization of the R documentation is 
overly "aggressive" in changing the spelling of "Greek" letters to conform to 
local spellings. Does your ?plotmath page spell the first letter in the Greek 
alphabet as "alfa".


> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
--

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'   
-Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law

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