David, That is not clear from the original request. The request was for {}^18*O
It wasn't for delta^18 Therefore I put the space there to be sure that the 18 was seen as pre-superscript of O, not as a post-superscript of delta. I probably should also have used ~ as plot(1:10, xlab=expression(delta~{}^18*"O" * " VSMOW [â°]")) The original was unclear on [], since it was inside half a set of quotation marks. Rich On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: > > On May 4, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > > Dos this do what you want? >> >> plot(1:10, xlab=expression(delta*{}^18*"O" * " VSMOW [â°]")) >> >> The specific is to put an empty item there to hold the superscript. >> > > I do not think that is necessary: > > > plot(1:10, xlab=expression(delta^18*O~VSMOW["â°"])) > > (I wasn't sure if the [.] operation was supposed to be a subscript.) > > I generally avoid spaces in plotmath expressions and use tildes "~" to > accomplish any needed spaces. The asterisk "*" is the non-spacing separator > between elements. > > > > >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Janhal <janine.hal...@unil.ch> wrote: >> >> Salut, >>> I have been struggling to superscript the 18 before the O without ^ >>> visible >>> and found only help to superscript numbers after the letter. Thanks to >>> anyone who can help. >>> xlab=expression(delta*18O VSMOW [â°]") >>> Cheers, >>> Janine >>> >>> -- >>> >> > David Winsemius, MD > Heritage Laboratories > West Hartford, CT > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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