On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:44 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 09:47 -0600, Andrew Kniss wrote: > > > I've tried several different ways to accomplish this, but as yet to no > > > avail. My y-axis for a plot has a rather long label, and thus I have > > > been using "/n" to break it into two lines. However, to make it > > > technically correct for publication, I also need to use superscript in > > > the label. For example: > > > > > > par(oma=c(0,0,2,0),mar=c(5,6,0.25,2),lheight=1) > > > plot(1:10, > > > ylab="14C-glyphosate line1\n line2") > > > > > > will provide the text in two lines as I would like it. However, I am > > > trying to keep those same line breaks when using expression() to get my > > > superscript number. This will not work, as it aligns the "14C" section > > > with the bottom line of the expression making little sense to the > > > reader. > > > > > > par(oma=c(0,0,2,0),mar=c(5,6,0.25,2),lheight=1) > > > plot(1:10, > > > ylab=expression(" "^14*C*"-glyphosate line1\n line2")) > > > > > > Is there a way to align the "14C" portion of the expression with the top > > > line of the string rather than the bottom line? Any suggestions are > > > greatly appreciated. > > > Andrew > > > > plotmath, as has been covered many times previously, does not support > > multi-line expressions. A note should probably be added to ?plotmath on > > this. > > I've added a note. I think what is exact is that control chars are not > interpreted ('expresssion' is an overloaded work in this context). > > Thanks for the nudge (and please do continue to make such remarks). > > Brian
<snip> Happy to help and thanks for both noticing and taking the time to incorporate the update. Best regards, Marc ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.