[R] degree sign

[Cathy Lee Gierke]

My actual plot call is long and complicated, so I tried to simplify it in
the last message.....here is the actual, using David's proposed solution.
It is not working.   What I want to see printed is the following (with
degree symbols after 73 and 296).  Since I reuse this string in various
ways, I would like to build a variable to hold it that I can plug into
plots when needed:


*Hours from Reference Time: 201302060000 Model span = 24.00 hrs     o −73
  b −296*

So I set xlab=printXlab value with David's solution, below, in the plot
(this is the actual printXlab value, instead of the simplified one):


* xl = bquote( .(Orthophase[i,j] )*degree )**printXlab<-paste("Hours from
Reference Time:",RefTimeString,"Model span
=",format(magDt,digits=3,nsmall=2),"hrs    o",Orthophase[i,j],xl,"
b",Bathyphase[i,j])  *

and here is the result I get (weird duplicates....but most importantly, no
degree symbol:

Hours from Reference Time: 201302060000 Model span = 24.00 hrs o −73 *
Hours from Reference Time: 201302060000 Model span = 24.00 hrs o −73 −73
Hours from Reference Time: 201302060000 Model span = 24.00 hrs o −73 degree

b −296 b −296

b −296
----------------------
So, I tried to set xlab as Uwe's proposal (without paste, and without
commas):
printXlab<-expression("Hours from Reference Time:" RefTimeString "Model
span =" format(magDt,digits=3,nsmall=2) "hrs    o" * Orthophase[i,j] *
degree"     b"* Bathyphase[i,j] * degree)     #  degree~C

I get "unexpected symbol at ^RefTimeStrng" so it doesn't like the missing
commas.

Then I try it with commas, except around the degree parts:
printXlab<-expression("Hours from Reference Time:" RefTimeString "Model
span =" format(magDt,digits=3,nsmall=2) "hrs    o" * Orthophase[i,j] *
degree"     b"* Bathyphase[i,j] * degree)     #  degree~C

It runs, but here is what prints:

Hours from Reference Time:
​Then I try with all commas replaced by *:
printXlab<-expression("Hours from Reference Time:"* RefTimeString *"Model
span =" * format(magDt,digits=3,nsmall=2) * "hrs    o" * Orthophase[i,j] *
degree * "     b"* Bathyphase[i,j] * degree * " ")     #  degree~C

​And I get degree signs (sort of)!!  But the rest is wrong. The variables
are not evaluated:

Hours from Reference Time:RefTimeStringModel span =format(magDt, 3, 2)hrs
oOrthophasei° bBathyphasei°
​I don't really understand what state is required for the degrees to
print....​

Cathy Lee Gierke

*"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit." Aristotle*

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 2:04 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Mar 18, 2016, at 1:58 PM, Cathy Lee Gierke <leegi001 at umn.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I have searched and tried many things but cannot get anything to work.  I
> > just want to print out a degree sign after a the Orthophase number.
> >
> > The following list of "xl" values are all ones I have tried.  Granted
> they
> > are not what I want, but I have tried them all, and none of them print
> out
> > a degree symbol...
> >
> > #                   xl = expression(paste("Orthophase [", {
> > #                   }^o, "]"))
> >                  #xl<-~degree~C
> >                  #xl<-parse(text = ~degree)
> >                  #xl<-parse(text = paste(" ", "~degree", sep = ""))
> >                  #xl<-expression(~degree)
> >                  xl <- parse(text = paste(Orthophase[i,j], "*degree ~ S",
> > sep = ""))
> >
> >
> >                  printXlab<-paste("Orthophase    ",Orthophase[i,j],xl,"
> >  ")
> >
> > plot(MyData$time.hour[plotData],newData[plotData],type="l", xaxt="n",
> > xlab=printXlab,.....
>
> Ya' know Cathy. It would be nice if you would say what it was that you
> actually wanted to do rather than offering multiple failures This does not
> throw an error:
>
> xl = expression(paste("Orthophase [", {
>                   }^o, "]"))
> plot(1,1,type="l", xaxt="n", xlab=xl)
>
>
>
> But perhaps you want to pull in an evaluated result from an object in the
> workspace? This should work:
>
> Orthophase <- matrix( 4:1, 2)
> i=1;j=1
> xl = bquote( .(Orthophase [i,j] )*degree )
> plot(1,1,type="l", xaxt="n",
> xlab=xl)
>
> >
> >
> > Cathy Lee Gierke
> >
> > *"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
> > habit." Aristotle*
> >
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> David Winsemius
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>
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