Also have a look at http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su07/R/html/grDevices/html/plotmath.html for a list of terms.
Oh and it's called Xbar or X-bar. John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: dcarl...@tamu.edu > Sent: Wed, 6 May 2015 16:33:01 +0000 > To: tacsun...@yahoo.fr, r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Special character is graph label > > You do this with plotmath (see the manual page, ?plotmath): > >> plot(rnorm(10), rnorm(10), xlab=expression(bar(X))) > > ------------------------------------- > David L Carlson > Department of Anthropology > Texas A&M University > College Station, TX 77840-4352 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Robert U > Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 8:10 AM > To: R-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Special character is graph label > > Dear R users, > I am having issues finding a special character (and how to insert it) in > the lab of a graph axis. > > Let us say that the label of my axis is "X", i would like the X to have a > "line" over it, indicating that it is the "mean of X values" (i don't > even know how to properly state that in english...). Does someone > understand, and have any idea about how to do that? > Greetings, > R.H > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ____________________________________________________________ Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.