Thanks for the advice, problem solved.
-daisy On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:35 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Daisy Englert Duursma wrote: > >> Hello help, >> >> I have changed around some graphing code and made it into a function. >> Previously they y label of the axis was inserted as text in its own >> layout box. >> >> text(1,1, expression(~degree~C),cex=1) >> >> This worked great and resulted in the symbol for degree. >> >> In the function, I have changed it so: >> >> text(1,1,paste(b_unit),cex=1) >> >> and >> >> b_unit<-expression(~degree~C) > > With the other suggestions regarding dropping paste ... it would look better > as: > > b_unit<-expression(~degree*C) # imo, of course > >> >> This now inserts ~degree~C instead of the symbol. >> >> >> Any advice? > > Well, you asked of "any" advice. > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > -- Daisy Englert Duursma Room E8C156 Dept. Biological Sciences Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia Tel +61 2 9850 9256 10A Carrington Rd Hornsby, NSW 2077 Mobile: 0421858456 ______________________________________________ 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.