Warning: The following may be baloney, so confirmation or correction by those more knowledgeable is required. But maybe this will get you started/prove useful. Just beware.
1. First of all, as Ista said, this can be done, but it is heavily system dependent as to how. Basically I think you want access to UTF-8 encodings, which any modern OS should support, but that access is dependent on your system. 2. It also depends on where you want to display the results -- on screen, into a pdf, or ? . 3. See also The man pages on ?unicode and ?iconv , as these may also be relevant. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." -- Clifford Stoll On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > x = data.frame( β =1) > > seems to work fine for me. Perhaps you need to give some more details about > what exactly the problem is. > > Best, > Ista > On Jul 5, 2015 3:36 PM, "John Sorkin" <jsor...@grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote: > >> I would like to include a Greek letter in a column title, viz. pB where B >> should be the Greek letter beta, but I don't know how to do this. I know >> about dimnames, but I don't know how to create the Greek letter. >> Thank you, >> John >> >> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. >> Professor of Medicine >> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics >> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and >> Geriatric Medicine >> Baltimore VA Medical Center >> 10 North Greene Street >> GRECC (BT/18/GR) >> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 >> (Phone) 410-605-7119 >> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) >> >> >> Confidentiality Statement: >> This email message, including any attachments, is for ...{{dropped:16}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.