Another way that works on my Windows XP system is to use "\261" .
On 3/20/06, Smith, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R-people: > > François Michonneau's method to obtain the special character plus/minus works > on Windows 2000 professional. > > Many Thanks to François for his work! > > Phil Smith > Centers for Disease Control and Prevention > Atlanta, GA > > _____ > > From: François MICHONNEAU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:58 PM > To: [email protected]; Smith, Phil > Subject: Re: [R] Special characters: plus/minus > > > Hello, > > You can obtain the special character plus/minus by a copy from the MS Windows > "Character Table" and paste it in the R console or in your text editor as > (NotePad or Emacs). Then, you can use it in your script: > x <- 5 > y <- 0.25 > paste (x, "±", y) > > Cheers > > François Michonneau > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
