[R] Angstrom Symbol on Y-axis ?

[Uwe Ligges]

Pooja Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have started very recently with R in order to get excellent Box and  
> Whisker plots. I could plot my data nicely. However, I can't figure  
> out from R-mailing list archive or google search either, how to place  
> an Angstrom sign/symbol on the y-axis (any axis in principle), after a  
> usual y-axis label ?
> 
> I am doing something like this:
> 
> 
> boxplot(MAE.0_6,MAE.7_12,MAE.13_20,MAE.21_40,MAE.41_100,MAE. 
> 101_200,MAE.201_300,MAE. 
> 301_400 
> ,cex 
> .lab 
> = 
> 0.80 
> ,names 
> = 
> c 
> ("0 
> -6 
> ","7 
> -12 
> ","13 
> -20 
> ","21 
> -40","41-100","101-200","201-300","301-400"),cex.axis=0.70,col="gold",  
> xlab="Allowed Range", ylab="MAE(",\305,")")
> 
> I did use "\\oA" (without quotes) in place of \305 in the above command.

\305 works for me perfectly well (I am in latin1), or in plotmath 
terminology, you may want to use a ring over some letter as in 
expression(ring(A)).

Uwe Ligges



> Please help.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Kanu
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