Does this do what you want? plot(0:1, 0:1) x <- .25 text(.5,.5, labels = bquote(.(x)^6, list(x= x)))
Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 7:50 AM Sorkin, John <jsor...@som.umaryland.edu> wrote: > Colleagues, > > I would like to create a number (stored in the variable x) to the number > with the exponent of, i.e. the number to the sixth power. The code I have > tried, pasted below does not work. > > # create plot > plot(x=0.2,y=0.2,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1)) > PNotSusp=0.69 > # Create a string containing the base and exponent. > x <- 0.95123 > # Convert the base to text and add the exponent of 6 > mylab <- expression(paste(" ",character(x)^6)) > # Add the text to the plot > text(0.4,0.8,labels=paste(PNotSusp,"=\n",mylab)) > > I hope someone can show me how to create the text string I need. > > Thank you, > John > > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Professor of Medicine > Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics > University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and > Geriatric Medicine > Baltimore VA Medical Center > 10 North Greene Street > GRECC (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 > (Phone) 410-605-7119 > (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.