Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0510221559130.5783@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-10-22T15:14:15Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Male and female symbols?
In-Reply-To: <2FED5980-3778-4A6E-9550-A07ECB4D7142@wm.edu>
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, George W. Gilchrist wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea of how one might plot male and female
> symbols on a graph using R? Thanks!
You don't tell us your platform and the answer depends on the platform.
They are Unicode points U+2642 and U+2640. So if your system supports it,
something like text(x, y, "\u2642") will work, as will
points(x, y, pch="\u2642").
Alternatively, look at the Hershey fonts, which have these and many other
symbols (not necessarily of publication-quality though).
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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