hi, try this
lab =bquote(paste("Estimated ", t[50]," from ",.(what))) HTH, baptiste On 27 August 2010 20:19, Dieter Menne <dieter.me...@menne-biomed.de> wrote: > > plot.new() > lab =expression(paste("Estimated ", t[50]," from tgv")) > text(0.5,0.5,lab) > # Should look the same as above. I could not get the substitute right: > what = "tgv" > lab =expression(paste("Estimated ", t[50]," from ",what)) > text(0.5,0.2,lab) > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.