Re: [R] non ascill characters in plots. no alternative but plotmath?

I think the problem is with fonts and encodings. The pdf device is using a different font and/or encoding than the screen device and so the non-ascii characters are looking different. If you can convince the pdf driver to use the same font and encoding then the symbols/characters in the plot

[R] non ascill characters in plots. no alternative but plotmath?

A student entered some data with text characters like epsilon and alpha. On her Windows system, the Greek letters did not display properly in a plot. There were some ordinary ASCII instead. I asked her to send me the code so I could test. For me, the plot looks ok on the screen. Format1 -

Re: [R] non ascill characters in plots. no alternative but plotmath?

On Jun 6, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: A student entered some data with text characters like epsilon and alpha. On her Windows system, the Greek letters did not display properly in a plot. There were some ordinary ASCII instead. I asked her to send me the code so I could test. For