Show an ASCII character

Question

I want to show a block ASCII character █ (it's ASCII code is 219), How can I show it in terminal? I am using RGui on WinXP

Accepted Answer

You can use backslash to escape otherwise unprintable characters:

```
print("\245")
```

displays the Yen character (¥) on my gui. The 245 is in octal format, so the above expression is printing out ASCII (or whatever encoding the GUI is using) character 165.

219 is 333 in octal, but

```
print("\333")
```

prints out the Û character on my gui.

A few (but by no means all) unicode characters are also supported on the R gui:

```
cyrillic_d <- "\u0414"
print(cyrillic_d)
```

outputs Д.

Show an ASCII character

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