[R] italics and not in main=

[Martin Henry H. Stevens]

R 1.3.0, windows
I've checked archives, and examples in text, mtext, and title.
I am trying to include italicized text in the main title of a figure:

....,
main = "[italics here] species name [italics stop] more plain text"

TIA,
Henry


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Miami University
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