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Message-ID: <20110706113710.92fcd93f.mathew.brown@forst.uni-goettingen.de>
Date: 2011-07-06T09:37:10Z
From: mathew brown
Subject: permil symbol linux
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1107060926530.26541@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>

Good point.

Here is the code
plot(dat$timestamp,dat$delta_18_16, ylab="", xlab="(min)", tck=0.05, col="blue")
mtext(side=2, line=1.5, expression(""*delta*""^18*"O [\u0089]"), cex=1, adj=0.5)

I'm still not sure how to get your code to work.
thanks

On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:45:49 +0100 (BST)
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, mathew brown wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> > I'm trying to figure out how to make a plot with ylab showing the 
> > permil symbol. Anyone know how to do this?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Now, it you would follow the posting guide and give the 'at a minimum' 
> information you were asked for, and the graphics device you want to 
> use, we might be able to tell you more precisely how.
> 
> Hint: that symbol is "\u0089", and also in latin-1.
> 
> > Thanks
> >
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