I got this but the spacing is all wrong and plotmath() seems to have no way to do kernning or overprinting. I'm surprised Paul didn't generalize the hat()-type functionality.

ggplot(data, aes(x=X)) + geom_line(aes(y = Z), size=0.43) +
  xlab(expression(atop("\U0308",Omega)))

ggplot(data, aes(x=X)) + geom_line(aes(y = Z), size=0.43) +
  xlab(expression(atop("\U0308",omega)))


On 5/14/2017 11:18 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Sun, 14 May 2017 09:08:46 -0700 David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> 
wrote:

On May 14, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Ranjan Maitra <mai...@email.com> wrote:

Thanks, Duncan!

This works for the particular case and is, to my mind, a great solution!

However, I was wondering: is it possible to use these double dots with another 
character, such as omega?

I apologize for changing the question somewhat, but I did not realize earlier 
that there were separate codes for putting double dots over different letters 
and I thought that figuring out the simpler question would be enough for me to 
figure out the next step.
I think you should be looking for a LaTeX solution. There is a 
tikzDevice-package.

This says you can assemble symbols with backspaces:

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~partha/symbols.pdf

For instance, LATEX defines \hbar (“~”) as a “¯” character (\mathchar’26) 
followed by a backspace of 9 math units (\mkern-9mu), followed by the letter 
“h”:

The second example in ?tikz, which could be a starting point for completing 
your task fails on my Mac by only displaying the names of the glyphs but not 
the glyphs themselves in the plot,  but it might have a better chance of 
succeeding on a Linux box.

Thanks! I was trying to avoid using tikz but I guess that there may well be no 
other alternative.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

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