Great, that's a good starting point.
Andrew

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez
<jorgeivanvelez@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi Andrew,
> If I understand correctly, then
>
> # Data
> x <- c(3,4,2)
>
> # Collection of text and symbols
> Text <- c('foo', 'abcd', 'John')
> PCH <- c('+','O','$')
>
> # Plotting
> plot(x, pch = PCH)
> legend('topright', pch = PCH, Text, ncol = 3)
>
> should be close to what you want. Note that the text() / points()
> combination could be avoided when using legend().
>
> Best,
>
> Jorge
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Andrew Yee <> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks for your help.
>> I should have been more clear in my initial e-mail.  I shouldn't have used
>> 'alpha' or 'beta,' to avoid confusion with them as Greek symbols.  I should
>> have stated something like:
>>
>> O foo O abcd O John
>>
>> While I'm familiar with using legend to make the filled boxes, I'm
>> interested in creating a one line "legend" of sorts, but manually using
>> text() with both data symbols defined by pch and text on the same line.  Or
>> is this not possible?  I guess at the end of the day, I could use both
>> points() and text().
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez <> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>> Do you want to put the symbols you described as a legend in a plot?  If
>>> so, here is one way:
>>>
>>> x <- rnorm(3)
>>> plot(x, pch = 16, cex = 1.1, col = 1:3)
>>> legend('topleft', ncol = 3,
>>>         c(expression(alpha), expression(beta), expression(gamma)), pch =
>>> 16, cex = 1.1, col = 1:3)
>>>
>>> Is you do not want to use legend, but place the symbols in each plot,
>>> then:
>>>
>>> plot(x, pch = 16, cex = 1.1, col = 1:3)
>>> text(1.05,1.01*x[1], expression(alpha) )
>>> text(2.05,1.01*x[2], expression(beta) )
>>> text(2.95,1.01*x[3], expression(gamma) )
>>>
>>> should get you close.
>>>
>>> See ?text, ?expression and ?legend for more information.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> Jorge
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Yee <> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi, is there a way to treat a data symbol, e.g. one with pch = 16, as a
>>>> character?
>>>> Specifically, I'm interested in creating a line of text as follows using
>>>> the
>>>> text() function
>>>>
>>>> O alpha O beta O gamma
>>>>
>>>> where the "O" is pch 16 and filled with a specific color.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this is possible or not.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
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