[R] greek letters for labelling axes

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Mon Sep 27 12:51:39 CEST 2004


Samuel Kemp wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to show greek letters on the x and y 
> axes?
> 
> I have tried
> 
>  > plot(x,y, xlab=expression(delta), ylab=expression(gamma))
> 
> but the output on the x-axis is "d" and on the y-axis it is "g".

Which device, which version of R, which OS? Please specify a 
reproducible example. Works for me in all configurations I can imagine ...

Uwe Ligges



> Any help will be very much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sam.
> 
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