如何在 R-studio 中编织希腊符号以生成 pdf

How to knit a greek symbol in R-studio to generate a pdf

我正在使用 R studio markdown 和 knitr,它们都是很棒的东西。

我好像不能把希腊符号编织成pdf。

相同的 Rmd 文件:

---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Hugo Koopmans"
date: "11-01-2015"
output: pdf_document
---


Test Greek symbol
----------------

P-value
In statistics, the p-value is a function of the observed sample results (a statistic) that is used for testing a statistical hypothesis. Before performing the test a threshold value is chosen, called the significance level of the test, traditionally 5% or 1% [1] and denoted as α. If the p-value is equal or smaller than the significance level (\alpha)

现在我在linx mint 17 texlive 2013 Rstudio版本0.98.1062

结果:

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  ordinary text without R code


/usr/lib/rstudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc Preview-25df24aa1731.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash-implicit_figures --output Preview-25df24aa1731.pdf --template /home/hugo/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0/rmarkdown/rmd/latex/default.tex --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex --variable 'geometry:margin=1in' 


processing file: Preview-25df24aa1731.Rmd
output file: Preview-25df24aa1731.knit.md

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:α not set up for use with LaTeX.

See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.73 denoted as α

Try running pandoc with --latex-engine=xelatex.
pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 43
Execution halted

结果是 pandoc 抱怨 alpha 符号。所以生成的latex好像不能处理符号...

我想让 R studio 正确处理这个问题,而无需手动更改 tex 文件......理想情况下......

有什么建议吗?

雨果

对于 Rmarkdown 中的希腊符号,您可以使用内联公式,由 $ ... $ 表示,即两个 $ 符号。

试试这个:

If the p-value is equal or smaller than the significance level $\alpha$