Hi, try this,
plot.new() x=0.8 text(0.5, 0.5, bquote(rho == .(x))) HTH, baptiste 2009/11/3 <j.delashe...@ed.ac.uk>: > > I'm trying something that I thought would be pretty simple, but it's proving > quite frustrating... > > I want to display, for instance, the correlation coefficient "rho" in a > graph. > > I can do something like: > > text(x, y, paste("rho =", cor)) > > where cor would be my previously calculated correlation coefficient, and x > and y the coordinates. > Obviously that displays "rho", not the greek letter rho. > > I can do also this: > > text(x, y, paste("\\*r =",cor), vfont = c("sans serif","bold")) > > that works, but that doesn't look very "pretty". > What looks good is doing something like: > > text(x, y, expression(rho)) > > But I haven't managed to make it do what I need. > > I can get this: > text(x, y, expression(rho == 0.8)) > > that looks good, but how can I substitute the "0.8" for teh name of a > numeric variable whose value is 0.8? > > I'm going slightly mad... it can't be that hard. > > Thanks for any help! > > Jose > > > -- > Dr. Jose I. de las Heras Email: j.delashe...@ed.ac.uk > The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology Phone: +44 (0)131 6513374 > Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology Fax: +44 (0)131 6507360 > Swann Building, Mayfield Road > University of Edinburgh > Edinburgh EH9 3JR > UK > ********************************************* > NEW EMAIL from July'09: nach.mcn...@gmail.com > ********************************************* > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.