Gunter Bart wrote: > You need substitute(). Look at the examples in plotmath(). > x<-3;y<-'foo' > plot(c(0,1),c(0,1),type='n') > text(.5,.5,substitute(paste('Releases of ',x^99,' ',y,' > TBq/year'),list(x=x,y=y))) > Hope this helps ... Thanks a lot, it helped indeed! Morten