I wanted to add a strikethrough text to an R ggplot2 plot and I thought I will have to play with font settings. But, I have found this nice hint that you don’t actually have to do this. All you need is to change the encoding of the text (labels, in my case) and ggplot2 will happily do that for you. The trick is the following:
> strk <- stringr::str_replace_all("strikethrough", "(?<=.)", "\u0336")
> strk
[1] "s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶"In reality it looks much nicer than this stupid copy-paste you see above:
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