In a LaTeX document, I am including an image showing a plot generated by R, for example the result of a plot(x=1:5,y=1:5,pch=13). Is there a way to use this nice little symbol as a LaTaX character to use it in the regular text? It's #13 from this list.
To clarify, I am not looking for \otimes, which is a nice workaround. I am rather wondering if there is some package which has all the standard R symbols, including, say #14.
Another not-very-elegant solution, but you could save just the symbol in a small file and import it where needed. It seems likely that each different symbol might need tweaking, but here's an example in knitr format.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=0.1in, paperwidth=2.3in, paperheight=2.6in]{geometry}
\parindent 0pt
\begin{document}
<<fig.width=2, fig.height=2, echo=FALSE>>=
par(mar=c(1,1,1,1))
plot(x=1:5,y=1:5, pch=13)
@
<<echo=FALSE, results="hide">>=
pdf('test.pdf', width=.2, height=.2)
par(mar=c(0,0,0,0))
plot.new()
plot.window(xlim=c(-1,1),ylim=c(-1,1), xaxs="i", yaxs="i")
points(0, -0.5, pch=13, cex=1)
dev.off()
@
Note that the \includegraphics[height=12pt]{test.pdf} used in this graphic is a circle with an X through it.
\end{document}
This is probably not the most elegant solution to your problem, but there is a package called tikzDevice for R (if you use R 3.0 or newer, you have to install it by hand). It exports R plots to TikZ Code. You could look into the created code to find what symbol that package uses.
I do all my plots for LaTeX with tikzDevice, since it allows you to use TeX code in axis-descriptions, legends, titles etc. It also has the advantage, that the font in the plot and in your document is the same.
You can find an example for the usage of tikzDevice here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/tikzdevice-demo/
Hope that helps!
\otimes, which is what Detexify suggests. I don't get it why I should create another question - I am looking for a package, not a symbol.