[R] percent sign in plot annotation

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

you can try

text(1, 1, expression(paste(alpha, " = 5%")))


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Keller-Ressel" <mkeller at fam.tuwien.ac.at>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:57 AM
Subject: [R] percent sign in plot annotation


> Hello,
>
> I would like to annotate a graph with the expression 'alpha = 5%' 
> (the
> alpha should be displayed as the greek letter).
> I tried
>
>> text(1,1,expression(alpha == 5%))
>
> which gives a syntax error.
> escaping the percent sign (\%) or doubling (%%) does not help.
> What do I do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin Keller-Ressel
>
>
>
> -- 
> Martin Keller-Ressel
> Research Unit of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics
> TU Vienna
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