Thanks to Bettina, Dimitris and Gavin for their help. All their solutions work nicely. For future reference, here are three ways to draw a percent sign in R plots:
plot(0:10, 0:10, type = "n") text(5,7,expression(paste(alpha == 5, "%", sep = ""))) text(5, 5, expression(paste(alpha, " = 5%"))) text(5,3,expression(alpha == 5*"%")) best regards, Martin Keller-Ressel -- Martin Keller-Ressel Research Unit of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics TU Vienna ______________________________________________ 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.