My actual plot call is long and complicated, so I tried to simplify it in the last message.....here is the actual, using David's proposed solution. It is not working. What I want to see printed is the following (with degree symbols after 73 and 296). Since I reuse this string in various ways, I would like to build a variable to hold it that I can plug into plots when needed:
*Hours from Reference Time: 201302060000 Model span = 24.00 hrs o −73 b −296* So I set xlab=printXlab value with David's solution, below, in the plot (this is the actual printXlab value, instead of the simplified one): * xl = bquote( .(Orthophase[i,j] )*degree )**printXlab<-paste("Hours from Reference Time:",RefTimeString,"Model span =",format(magDt,digits=3,nsmall=2),"hrs o",Orthophase[i,j],xl," b",Bathyphase[i,j]) * and here is the result I get (weird duplicates....but most importantly, no degree symbol: Hours from Reference Time: 201302060000 Model span = 24.00 hrs o −73 * Hours from Reference Time: 201302060000 Model span = 24.00 hrs o −73 −73 Hours from Reference Time: 201302060000 Model span = 24.00 hrs o −73 degree b −296 b −296 b −296 ---------------------- So, I tried to set xlab as Uwe's proposal (without paste, and without commas): printXlab<-expression("Hours from Reference Time:" RefTimeString "Model span =" format(magDt,digits=3,nsmall=2) "hrs o" * Orthophase[i,j] * degree" b"* Bathyphase[i,j] * degree) # degree~C I get "unexpected symbol at ^RefTimeStrng" so it doesn't like the missing commas. Then I try it with commas, except around the degree parts: printXlab<-expression("Hours from Reference Time:" RefTimeString "Model span =" format(magDt,digits=3,nsmall=2) "hrs o" * Orthophase[i,j] * degree" b"* Bathyphase[i,j] * degree) # degree~C It runs, but here is what prints: Hours from Reference Time: Then I try with all commas replaced by *: printXlab<-expression("Hours from Reference Time:"* RefTimeString *"Model span =" * format(magDt,digits=3,nsmall=2) * "hrs o" * Orthophase[i,j] * degree * " b"* Bathyphase[i,j] * degree * " ") # degree~C And I get degree signs (sort of)!! But the rest is wrong. The variables are not evaluated: Hours from Reference Time:RefTimeStringModel span =format(magDt, 3, 2)hrs oOrthophasei° bBathyphasei° I don't really understand what state is required for the degrees to print.... Cathy Lee Gierke *"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle* On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 2:04 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On Mar 18, 2016, at 1:58 PM, Cathy Lee Gierke <leegi...@umn.edu> wrote: > > > > I have searched and tried many things but cannot get anything to work. I > > just want to print out a degree sign after a the Orthophase number. > > > > The following list of "xl" values are all ones I have tried. Granted > they > > are not what I want, but I have tried them all, and none of them print > out > > a degree symbol... > > > > # xl = expression(paste("Orthophase [", { > > # }^o, "]")) > > #xl<-~degree~C > > #xl<-parse(text = ~degree) > > #xl<-parse(text = paste(" ", "~degree", sep = "")) > > #xl<-expression(~degree) > > xl <- parse(text = paste(Orthophase[i,j], "*degree ~ S", > > sep = "")) > > > > > > printXlab<-paste("Orthophase ",Orthophase[i,j],xl," > > ") > > > > plot(MyData$time.hour[plotData],newData[plotData],type="l", xaxt="n", > > xlab=printXlab,..... > > Ya' know Cathy. It would be nice if you would say what it was that you > actually wanted to do rather than offering multiple failures This does not > throw an error: > > xl = expression(paste("Orthophase [", { > }^o, "]")) > plot(1,1,type="l", xaxt="n", xlab=xl) > > > > But perhaps you want to pull in an evaluated result from an object in the > workspace? This should work: > > Orthophase <- matrix( 4:1, 2) > i=1;j=1 > xl = bquote( .(Orthophase [i,j] )*degree ) > plot(1,1,type="l", xaxt="n", > xlab=xl) > > > > > > > Cathy Lee Gierke > > > > *"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a > > habit." Aristotle* > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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 > Alameda, CA, USA > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.