[R] Superscripts and rounding

[ehux]

I am in Canada and it worked!! as:    \some text\UB2

the round did not work. i also tried nsmall  - to specify number of digits
to the right to the decimal to no avail. i will keep trying and post if
something does work.  



Polwart Calum (County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust) wrote:
> 
> I'm anything but an expert in R however if I'm labeling a graph axis with
> a superscript I have tended to use:
> 
>> plot (x , y , xlab = expression ("label"^2))
> 
> But when you try to have more than one superscript it fails.  Assuming you
> are in a UTF8 location (Western Europe) you could try:
> 
>> plot (x , y , xlab = expression ("Some label text \UB2 some more label
>> text \UB2"))
> 
> That works for me.  (B2 is the hex code for UTF-8 character = ^2 and \U is
> a control sequence that will call that character.)  It onlyu works if you
> are a UTF8 area from what i understand.
> 
> --
> 
> As for rounding - can you not populate a new field using the round
> command?
> 
> i.e. something like
> 
> [metadata][long_4dig] = round([metadata][longitude],4)  #I haven't used
> round before my syntax may be wrong!
> 
> Then use %s to drop that value in?
> 
> C
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