Re: [R] mtext text size (cex) doesn't match plot

2011-05-12 Thread George Locke
thanks for reading the manual for me :X 2011/5/12 Prof Brian Ripley : > On Wed, 11 May 2011, George Locke wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am using mtext instead of the ylab argument in some plots because i >> want to move it away from the numbers in the axis.  Howe

[R] mtext text size (cex) doesn't match plot

2011-05-11 Thread George Locke
Hi, I am using mtext instead of the ylab argument in some plots because i want to move it away from the numbers in the axis. However, the text in the X axis, for example: par(mar=c(5, 5.5, 4, 2)); plot(data, main="plot name", xlab= 'X axis', ylab="", font=2, cex.lab=1.5, font.la

Re: [R] mysterious extra spaces appearing in expression paste

2010-02-05 Thread George Locke
Hey, So I found workaround for what I'm now pretty sure is a bug. the reason I'm sure it's a bug is that i found that I found that linebreaks are handled in a wonky but regular way. There's a rule, and it's a bad rule, ie a bug. The wonky rule is as follows: text(x,y,expression(paste("thing1 \n

[R] mysterious extra spaces appearing in expression paste

2010-02-02 Thread George Locke
c(1,2),lwd=3, y.intersp = 2.0,adj=c(0,1.5)) the problem is that lots of extra space appears between the open parenthesis and the rho. what can be done? (i'm running version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) on fedora 12) Thanks! George Locke __ R-help@r-p