Rau, Roland <Rau <at> demogr.mpg.de> writes:
> I am trying to plot some text in bold face which works fine: > > plot(0:1,0:1,type="n") > text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(bold("the-actual-string"))) > > Now when I try to do the following, the displayed text reads thestring: > > thestring <- "the-actual-string" > plot(0:1,0:1,type="n") > text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(bold(thestring))) > "expression" can be mind twisting. For a probably more realistic example, see the following: plot(0:1,0:1,type="n") ss1 = paste("there was ",expression(Delta)) ss = substitute(paste("there was ",expression(Delta))) text(x=0.3, y=0.3, labels=ss1) text(x=0.4, y=0.4, labels=ss) Dieter ______________________________________________ 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.