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FW: [S]: mixing character and symbols in key ---solved

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Subject: FW: [S]: mixing character and symbols in key ---solved
From: "Pratt, James" <jamesp@mocr.oapi.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:23:33 -0500
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> Bill Dunlap at StatSci pointed out the function AsciiToInt as a way to
> identify the numeric code for pch when desired to plot an ascii character
> via points or lines functions.  Thank you, Bill.
> 
> I have used this in my key statement within the Trellis function call as
> 
> key=list(pch=c(AsciiToInt("A"),8,AsciiToInt("|")),col=c(2,5,3),text=c("Fir
> st line","Second line","Third line"))
> 
> This produces a legend such as
> 
>       A    First Line
>       *     Second line
>       |     Third line
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Pratt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Dunlap [SMTP:bill@statsci.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 1:17 PM
> To:   Pratt, James
> Subject:      RE: [S]: mixing character and symbols in key ---solved
> 
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Pratt, James wrote:
> 
> > Still, it would be nice if key() would accept a marks= vector so one
> need
> > not know the code for ASCII characters when one wished to mix the symbol
> > types in a legend, much like legend() did.
> 
> Until then you can use AsciiToInt() to translate characters into their
> numeric codes so you don't have to remember them.
> 
> > AsciiToInt("a")
> [1] 97
> > AsciiToInt(LETTERS[1:4]) 
> [1] 65 66 67 68
> 
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