[R] Why do I get a linebreak in the legend?

[Andrew Robinson]

Hi CG,

move one of the parens:

legend("topleft", expression(paste(R[adj]^2, " = 0.66")))

Cheers

Andrew


On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:10:49AM +0100, CG Pettersson wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> W2k, R2.4.0
> 
> I want to place a legend in a regression plot, stating the adjusted
> R-square value. After some struggle with the coding I am nearly there, but
> only nearly. The best try so far is:
> 
> legend("topleft", expression(paste(R[adj]^2), " = 0.66"))
> 
> This places the proper information in the legend, but I get a linebreak
> before the "= 0.66" and I want the expression on one single line. All
> adjustments from this code I have tried so far either produces only half
> the expression or produces an error message.
> 
> All the best and sorry for a trivial quastion
> /CG
> 
> 
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