[R] special simbol (±) in a legend
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Jun 25 13:22:23 CEST 2012
The posting guide asked for 'at a minimum' information, which you have
not provided (nor do we know what graphics device this is).
But on many OSes and devices simply use the Unicode character "\u00b1".
Or use plotmath (see ?plotmath).
On 25/06/2012 12:03, gianni lavaredo wrote:
> dear reserachers,
>
> I am looking for a expression about a special symbol (±) in a Legend and
> add on front of "Mean ± SD" the symbol of bracket
>
>
> sorry if the example is not great
>
> disptest <- matrix(rnorm(10),nrow=10)
> disptest.means<- rowMeans(disptest)
> plot(1:10,disptest.means)
> dispersion(1:10,disptest.means,(disptest.means+disptest
> ),(disptest.means-disptest ),intervals=FALSE,arrow.cap=0.001,arrow.gap=0)
>
> legend("topleft",
> legend=c("Mean","Mean +/- SD"),
> pch=c(1,NA),
> bty="n",cex=1.3)
>
> thanks for all suggestions
> Gianni
>
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