Dear Gerard, Without your data, it's not possible to reproduce your problem exactly, but it's clear that it isn't specific to the scatterplot() function in the car package. For example, try
plot(1:10) title(main=bquote(paste("Hypothesis 9.4.1\nBaseline XYZ with Disease Activity (DAS28)\nat Month 18 (N=", 100 ,")")), adj=0) You should be able to adapt the following solution: plot(1:10) mtext("Hypothesis 9.4.1\nBaseline XYZ with Disease Activity (DAS28)", side=3, line=2) mtext(paste("at Month 18 (N=", 100 ,")", sep=""), side=3, line=1) I hope this helps, John ----------------------------------------------- John Fox McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Gerard Smits > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 5:00 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] spacing problem in main title using car package > scatterplot > > Hi All, > > I'm using R 3.0.0. I'm trying to add the sample size of the paired > data (calculated by a function n(), which returns a value of 70, > correctly). > > My main title works fine except that the '70' appears far to the right > on the line as in: > > at Month 18 (N= 70) > > Is there a way of left justifying the result of .(ss)? or some other > way of removing with whitespace between n= and 70?. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Gerard > > > > > library (car) > data<-read.csv("//users//smits//r_work//data.csv", header = TRUE) > attach(data); > > ####################################################################### > ########################################### > ss<-n(m18_das28*b_score) > > scatterplot(m18_das28~b_score, > jitter=list(x=1, y=1), > grid=F, > smooth=F, > las=1, > pch=c(1), > col='blue', > main=bquote(paste("Hypothesis 9.4.1\nBaseline XYZ with Disease > Activity (DAS28)\nat Month 18 (N=",.(ss),")")), > xlab="Baseline XYZ", > ylab="Month 18 DAS28", > legend.plot=F) > > ______________________________________________ > 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.