[R] Annoteting graphs using text

[Craig H. Ziegler]

Dear All,

I am new to R and am trying to learn how to create functions using R.
Below is code which calculates Lin's Concordance Coefficient.  After
I calculate the coefficient I want to create a scatter plot which
annotates the coefficient along with preceding text onto the plot.
The below code doesn't seem to work.  If I use only the object
'lincc' on the text command it works (but doesn't give me the preceding
text) or if I use only "Lin's Concordance Coefficient = " on the text
command it works (but doesn't place on the plot the value for the object
'lincc').  Similarly, I have tried using:
          linc=cat("Lin's Concordance Coefficient = ",lincc)
within the function and then specifying:
                    text(20,60,(linc)

Also, the objects I create inside a "user defined function"
are internal to the function.  Is there anyway/command that
can make them external, i.e., make them exists to perform
tasks on outside the user defined function.

Can anyone offer some advise as to what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

Craig Ziegler
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# o1 is the x vector
# o2 is the y vector
# I am trying to correlate these vectors to get
# Lin's Concordance Coeffient.  These are just
# test vectors
o1=c(11,9,54,55,50,44,58,5,21,58,41,59,39,34,23)
o2=c(27,15,72,63,65,49,51,8,30,43,40,62,52,49,21)

#title is a specification for the plot title; see 'main = title' in the
#plot function
#hlab is the x axis label; see "xlab = hlab" in the plot function
#vlab is the y axis label; see "ylab = vlab" in the plot function

title="This is a test plot"
vlab="Label for verticle axis"
hlab="Label for horizontal axis"

# Start of the function I call lin

lin = function (x,y)
     {
      lincc =
              (2 * cov(x,y)) /
              (var(x) + (var(y)) +
	      ((mean(x) - mean(y))^2))
               print(lincc)

       agree =
               plot(x,y,xlim=c(0,70),ylim=c(0,70),
	       main = title, xlab = hlab, ylab = vlab )
	       abline(0,1)

               #Below is where I am having trouble as discussed above

               text(20,60,cat("Lin's Concordance Coefficient = ",lincc))
	       print(agree)
       }

#executes the function
lin(o1,o2)