On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 12:24 +0200, mathew brown wrote: > To all in R land, > > Here is what I would like to do. > x = c(1:10) > y = c(1:10) > plot(x,y) > mtext(side=2, line=1.5, expression(""*delta*""^18*"O [permill]"), cex=1, > adj=0.5) > > That's it. Except I would like to replace "permill" with the symbol. > Thanks for the help
Are you trying to be difficult? Have you read the posting guide so you can provide the "at minimum" information Prof. Ripley asked you for? Simply repeating the question ad nauseam isn't what was requested. On my linux box, this will produce a d^{18}O permille **on screen** - not sure why you want this in square brackets? plot(1:10, ylab = expression(delta^{18}*O ~ ("\u2030"))) Now that glyph doesn't appear to be in the pdf device fonts for my encoding so when plotting to pdf() I have to add `encoding="WinAnsi.enc"` to my `pdf()` call - IIRC this advice at the time was supplied by Prof. Ripley. The advice may well be different on your **unstated** OS - hence the requests for more info. This is with: > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.0 Patched (2011-04-19 r55527) Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] cocorresp_0.1-9 vegan_1.17-9 which would be part of the at minimum info Prof. Ripley asked for. And also which device (windows(), x11(), quartz(), pdf(), postscript() etc, etc.) do you *want* to print on? Please do read the posting guide - you might not be aware what information is required to answer your question, so what seems superfluous may well be, and in this case probably is, *essential*. G > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:07:55 +0100 (BST) > Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > > You still have not sent the information requested in the posting > > guide, and I do not know your target device nor locale, nor is that a > > reproducible example. > > > > Please learn some respect for the time of the helpers here (and for > > all the work that went into making this possible in R). > > > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, mathew brown wrote: > > > > > Good point. > > > > > > Here is the code > > > plot(dat$timestamp,dat$delta_18_16, ylab="", xlab="(min)", tck=0.05, > > > col="blue") > > > mtext(side=2, line=1.5, expression(""*delta*""^18*"O [\u0089]"), cex=1, > > > adj=0.5) > > > > > > I'm still not sure how to get your code to work. > > > > Unsurprising, as you have not seen *my* code. > > > > > thanks > > > > > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:45:49 +0100 (BST) > > > Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > >> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, mathew brown wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi, > > >> > > >>> I'm trying to figure out how to make a plot with ylab showing the > > >>> permil symbol. Anyone know how to do this? > > >> > > >> Yes. > > >> > > >> Now, it you would follow the posting guide and give the 'at a minimum' > > >> information you were asked for, and the graphics device you want to > > >> use, we might be able to tell you more precisely how. > > >> > > >> Hint: that symbol is "\u0089", and also in latin-1. > > >> > > >>> Thanks > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> > > >>> ______________________________________________ > > >>> 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. > > >>> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > > >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > > >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > > >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > > >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Mathew Brown > > > Institute of Bioclimatology > > > University of Göttingen > > > Büsgenweg 2 > > > 37077 Göttingen, Germany > > > t: +49 551 39 9359 > > > mathew.br...@forst.uni-goettingen.de > > > > > > > -- > > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ 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.