Plot dagger symbol in R

Dear all,

I would like to plot the dagger symbol in R (like LaTeX's \dagger).
However, I was unable to do so.

First, I thought maybe dagger actually exists just like the degree
symbol:

plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(degree))

plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(dagger))

However, this was not very successful. New hope emerged that I will
succeed when I read the help page (as so often) for ?plotmath.
There I discovered the 'symbol' thing and read that the Adobe Symbol
font encodings are used. The closest thing I could fine, though, was:

plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(symbol("\247")))

But this is obviously not a dagger and it seems the Adobe Symbol font
does not have a dagger.

We also know this :-D

library(fortunes)
fortune("Yoda")

So maybe someone can give me some advice?

Thanks in advance,
Roland

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