Thats right. serves me for not checking the code before posting. but paste should work in anycase with collapse or when x is a single parameter.
Nikhil On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:24 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: > > On May 2, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Nikhil Kaza wrote: > > say x is the variable. >> >> plot(..., title=paste(x, "whatever else"), ...) should work as well. >> >> same should work with file names as well. >> > > Perhaps in an alternate universe it might, ... but it doesn't in this one. > "title" is not the correct parameter for specifying titles, and if you > change the parameter name to the correct parameter name, "main", you are > now giving it a vector with text-coercion of the number of values of x in x > pasted to "whatever", since paste is vectorized. > > Not what you want: > > x <-c(-1, -0.75, -0.5, -0.25, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1) > plot(x, main=paste(x, "whatever")) > > -- > David > > > >> Nikhil >> >> >> >> On May 1, 2010, at 9:56 PM, R K wrote: >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I was wondering if someone could tell me how I can make text dependent on >>> a variable in a R function I have created. >>> >>> The function will create plots, thus I would like each plot to have a >>> unique title based on the inputted variable as well as a unique file name >>> when saved using the savePlot function. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Rachel >>> >>> _________________________________________________________________ >>> The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your >>> inbox. >>> >>> N:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
