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lower case Greek letters

2 messages · Matt Pocernich, Brian Ripley

Matt Pocernich
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Hello,

I am having difficulties creating lower case Greek letters.

For example

plot(0,0, type = "n")

text(-0.5,1, expression(beta) )
text( 0.5,1, expression(alpha) )

produce the upper case letters B and A.

Running 

demo("plotmath") 
In the Symbolic Names 

Alpha - Omega   ! 7
alpha - omega   Capital greek letters

so I suspect it may have something to do with my system, but
I am at a loss as to what.  Any suggestions as to what to check
would be appreciated.

I am running R version 2.1.0 on Debian Linux - version sarge.

Thanks,

Matt
Brian Ripley
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On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Matt Pocernich wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Well, see the posting guide and follow its advice -- 2.2.1 beta is 
available so you are 3-epsilon versions out of date.

Beyond that, you have not told us your graphics device.  I suspect this is 
the X11() device and so an X11 font issue.  Try

            

      
      
      
    

        
$X11fonts
[1] "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
[2] "-adobe-symbol-medium-r-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

and see if xlsfonts gives you anything sensible for the second pattern, 
replacing %d by *.