Show ASCII character

Question

I want to show the ASCII character block █ (its ASCII code is 219),

How can I show it in the terminal?

I am using RGui on WinXP

Answer 1

You can use backslash to avoid other non-printable characters:

print("\245") 

displays the yen symbol ( ¥ ) on my gui. 245 is in octal format, so the above expression prints ASCII (or some kind of encoding graphical interface) character 165.

219 is 333 in octal, but

 print("\333") 

displays the Û character on my gui.

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R gui also supports several (but by no means all) Unicode characters:

 cyrillic_d <- "\u0414" print(cyrillic_d) 

displays D.

Answer 2

Following mobrule, the following work on R works in the UTF-8 locale on Linux:

 > "\u258A" [1] "▊" 

Answer 3

This works on Windows.

 > "\u2588" [1] "█"