On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 13:57 -0500, David Winsemius wrote: > On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:45 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > > > > On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Mark Heckmann wrote: > > > >> 1) I need to plot a legend containing the mathematical symbol > >> greater-than-or-equal sign. > >> And I want the text to start with that symbol. > >> <snip /> > > Try: > > > plot(110, 0.8) > > > categories <-legend(110, 0.8, c( expression(" ">= " 85"), > > "84,9 - 80", "79,9 - 75", "74,9 - 70", "69,9 - 65", "64,9 - 60", > > expression(" "<" 60")) > > + , lty=1:7, lwd=3, col=1, merge=TRUE) > > > That worked because of side-effects. Better might be: > > categories <- c( expression(" " >= " 85"), "84,9 - 80", "79,9 - > 75", "74,9 - 70", "69,9 - 65", "64,9 - 60", expression(" " < " 60")) > > plot(110, 0.8) > legend(110, 0.8, categories, lty=1:7, lwd=3, col=1, merge=TRUE)
The OP might also like to look at phantom() in ?plotmath to control the extra spacing required for "blank". HTH G > > > > The commas inside quotes do not cause problems. > > > >> > >> This does obviously not work. Any ideas? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Mark > >> ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– > >> Mark Heckmann > >> Dipl. Wirt.-Ing. cand. Psych. > >> Vorstraße 93 B01 > >> 28359 Bremen > >> Blog: www.markheckmann.de > >> R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> 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. > > > > David Winsemius, MD > > Heritage Laboratories > > West Hartford, CT > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > David Winsemius, MD > Heritage Laboratories > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% 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.