[R-lang] Re: Embedding phonetic symbols in R

[Bill Poser]

I hesitate to recommend this technique, but if you are really stuck you
could try directly hacking the postscript as described in this post from the
time before R supported Unicode:
http://babel.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/archive/Unicode%20in%20R%20Text.htm

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Sverre Stausland
<johnsen@fas.harvard.edu>wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> I've actually seen that thread before, but the only thing I extracted
> from it was "use Cairo", which I did ... There are some remaining
> details to be sorted out, I just don't know what they are.
>
> Sverre
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Levy, Roger <rlevy@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Sverre,
> >
> > You might find the following thread useful:
> >
> >
> http://pidgin.ucsd.edu/pipermail/r-lang/mailman.ucsd.edu/pipermail/ling-r-lang-l/2010-October/000110.html
> >
> > For me a crucial part of the puzzle was using the cairo_pdf and cairo_ps
> drivers (kudos to Paul Metzner for pointing this out).
> >
> > Best & let us know if that helps!
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Sverre Stausland wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm sure I'm not the only Windows user out there trying to embed IPA
> >> symbols in R graphics and then make a pdf out of it. If anyone knows
> >> how to do that, I would appreciate some help. Because I have not
> >> succeeded.
> >>
> >> Here is what I have tried. I'm creating a plot in R with IPA phonetic
> >> symbols, using the standard
> >> font Doulos SIL
> >> (
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=DoulosSILfont&_sc=1)
> >>
> >> When attempting to create a pdf of this plot in R using the pdf()
> >> function, I will get the following error messages:
> >>
> >>> pdf(file="C:/~myplot.pdf")
> >>> plot.default(my.x,my.y,type="n")
> >>> windowsFonts(IPA="TT Doulos SIL")
> >>> text(my.x,my.y,labels=my.data$words.with.IPA,family="IPA")
> >> Error in text.default(my.x, my.y,  :
> >> Invalid font type
> >> In addition: Warning messages:
> >> 1: In text.default(my.x, my.y,  :
> >> font family not found in PostScript font database
> >>
> >> I've been advised that I can resolve this problem using the Cairo
> >> package for R. But I have not succeeded. Here is my call:
> >>
> >>> library(Cairo)
> >>> CairoPDF(file="C:/~myplot.pdf")
> >>> plot.default(my.x,my.y,type="n")
> >>> windowsFonts(IPA="TT Doulos SIL")
> >>> text(my.x,my.y,labels=my.data$words.with.IPA,family="IPA")
> >>> dev.off()
> >>
> >> It produces a pdf file, but all the IPA symbols come out as boxes.
> >>
> >> Please note that R has no difficulties producing this plot in its
> >> graphic window with IPA symbols. It's only the pdf output I'm having
> >> difficulties with.
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated! Further details follow below.
> >>
> >>> sessionInfo()
> >> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
> >> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> >>
> >> locale:
> >> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> >> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> >> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> >> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> >> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> >>
> >> attached base packages:
> >> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >>
> >> other attached packages:
> >> [1] Cairo_1.4-9
> >>
> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> >> [1] tools_2.13.1
> >>
> >>> Sys.getlocale()
> >> [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> >> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> >> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252"
> >
> > --
> >
> > Roger Levy                      Email: rlevy@ucsd.edu
> > Assistant Professor             Phone: 858-534-7219
> > Department of Linguistics       Fax:   858-534-4789
> > UC San Diego                    Web:   http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~rlevy
> >
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