Scott, Thanks! That works great. I appreciate the help. Jonathan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Sherrill-Mix" <shesc...@mail.med.upenn.edu> To: "Jonathan R. Blaufuss" <blauf...@carleton.edu> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:18:18 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [R] Paste symbol and calculation in plot I'm no expert at this but it seems like ?plotmath is saying to do something like: text(2,0.35,bquote(sigma==.(mySigma),list('mySigma'=round(sd(Data),digits=3)))) Scott Scott Sherrill-Mix Department of Microbiology University of Pennsylvania 402B Johnson Pavilion 3610 Hamilton Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6076 On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Jonathan R. Blaufuss<blauf...@carleton.edu> wrote: > I'm trying to annotate a density plot and I would like to have R calculate the > standard deviation and place it in the plot next to the standard deviation > symbol > "sigma". I can successfully use the text command to paste "StDev > =",round(sd(Data),digits=3)) > on the plot. However, I have trouble when I want to replace "StDev" with the > Greek > symbol sigma (See code below). > > set.seed(1) > Data=rnorm(100) > plot(density(Data)) > text(2,0.35,paste("StDev =",round(sd(Data),digits=3))) > > Through searching the help files I figured out that I can paste the sigma > symbol on the > plot using the command "expression". > > text(2,0.3,expression(paste(sigma," = 0.898"))) > > However, when I try to paste together the sigma symbol and the standard > deviation > that R is calculating, the text of the command to calculate the standard > deviation > shows up on the plot instead of the number which I am asking it to calculate. > > text(2.2,0.25,expression(paste(sigma," = ",round(sd(Data),digits=3)))) > > Can someone please point me to a resource that will help me figure this out? > > Thank You, > > Jonathan > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.