characterTable {fBasics}

Table of characters

Description

Displays a table of numerical equivalents to Latin characters.

Usage

 
characterTable(font = 1, cex = 0.7)

Arguments

cex

a numeric value, determines the character size, the default size is 0.7.

font

an integer value, the number of the font, by default font number 1.

Value

displays a table with the characters of the requested font. The character on line "xy" and column "z" of the table has code "\xyz", e.g cat("\126") prints: V for font number 1. These codes can be used as any other characters.

Note

What happens with non-ASCII characters in plots is system dependent and depends on the graphics device, as well. Use of such characters is not recommended for portable code.

See Also

colorTable, symbolTable

points for use of characters in plotting

Examples

## Character Table for Font 1:
# characterTable(font = 1)