Thank you Simon, it works fine now.
Alberto 2011/2/9 Simon Urbanek <[email protected]>: > 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 >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
