Thats right. serves me for not checking the code before posting.

but paste should work in anycase with collapse or when x is a single
parameter.

Nikhil

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:24 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On May 2, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Nikhil Kaza wrote:
>
>  say x is the variable.
>>
>> plot(..., title=paste(x, "whatever else"), ...) should work as well.
>>
>> same should work with file names as well.
>>
>
> Perhaps in an alternate universe it might, ...  but it doesn't in this one.
>  "title" is not the correct parameter for specifying titles, and if you
> change the parameter name to  the correct parameter name, "main", you are
> now giving it a vector with text-coercion of the number of values of x in x
> pasted to "whatever", since paste is vectorized.
>
> Not what you want:
>
> x <-c(-1, -0.75, -0.5, -0.25, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1)
> plot(x, main=paste(x, "whatever"))
>
> --
> David
>
>
>
>> Nikhil
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 1, 2010, at 9:56 PM, R K wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if someone could tell me how I can make text dependent on
>>> a variable in a R function I have created.
>>>
>>> The function will create plots, thus I would like each plot to have a
>>> unique title based on the inputted variable as well as a unique file name
>>> when saved using the savePlot function.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Rachel
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