Alberto, you simply need a font that has those characters. For example on 10.6 this works:
plot.new(); plot.window(0:1,0:1); text(0.5,0.5,"精市",cex=10,family="Hei") You may want to check your system for fonts that you can use (those that have chinese characters when you click on them in Font Book). There are a lot of fonts that work like STSong, STFangsong, LiSong Pro, AppleMyungjo, GungSeo etc. Cheers, Simon On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Alberto Pepe wrote: > (reposting here, from r-help, as requested) > > Hi, > > I have read some of the documentation relative to character encodings > and non-standard fonts (including previous answered questions and the > 2006-2 R issue), but I am still struggling with very basic plotting of > Chinese text. > > I have a network, g, of Chinese characters (each node is a Chinese > character) and I can handle it and display it fine within R using > package igraph. However, when I try to plot this network, node names > do not display in the plot. I am trying to produce a visualization of > the character network, like this: > >> plot(g, layout=layout.fruchterman.reingold, vertex.color="black", >> vertex.size=2.0, edge.color="gray70", vertex.label=V(g)$name, >> edge.arrow.size=0.3) > > where g is a an igraph network: > >> g > Vertices: 199 > Edges: 123 > Directed: TRUE > Edges: > > [0] '精' -> '神' > [1] '市' -> '场' > [2] '思' -> '想' > ... > > The names of the nodes (labels) do not display in the plot. I have > noted that this is not a problem linked to igraph or network > visualization. Even if I try to plot an empty chart with a title that > contains one of the chinese characters above, these characters do not > display. > > What is the simplest way to display these non-standard fonts in a R plot? > > I am using R for Mac OS X GUI 1.35-dev Leopard build 32-bit: >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) > Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > attached base packages: > [1] grid tools stats graphics grDevices utils > datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] igraph_0.5.5-1 > > Thanks, > Alberto Pepe > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > r-sig-...@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
