Male and female symbols appear to be in the unicode specification, which, so far as I can tell, contains every symbol known to man or woman of every colour, creed, or race. One font I have looked at is Arial Unicode MS which is bundled with Microsoft Office 2000 and later, I believe, but any unicode font can be expected to have the same in the section called 'Miscellaneous Dingbats'. The Arial Unicode MS symbols are ???? (if these are readable here, that will say something - though not necessarily how one actually gets them onto an R graph!) Best of luck - seems to me that your question has far broader applicability than just these two particular symbols. Nick _________________________________________________________________ Nicholas Sherrard, PhD reduplicativeblending at yahoo.co.uk ????bundled with Microsoft --------------------------------- Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20021101/69bc26b4/attachment.html