Thanks to both you and Greg.  It would have taken a very long time for me to figure that out on my own.

Aram


On Aug 5, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Jean V Adams wrote:

> 
> Using Greg's idea about the capture.output() function, I got this example to work in R for Windows. 
> 
> x <- 1:20 
> y <- rnorm(20) 
> fit <- lm(y ~ x) 
> 
> smry <- capture.output(summary(fit)) 
> smry2 <- paste(smry, collapse="\n") 
> 
> par(oma=c(10, 0, 0, 0)) 
> plot(x, y) 
> mtext(side=1, outer=TRUE, text=smry2, cex=0.75, line=9, adj=0, family="mono") 
> 
> Jean 
> 
> 
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> 
> Jean V. Adams
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> 
> From:	Greg Snow <Greg.Snow@imail.org>
> To:	Aram Fingal <fingal@multifactorial.com>, "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>
> Date:	08/05/2011 02:40 PM
> Subject:	Re: [R] Displaying a summary in graphics
> Sent by:	r-help-bounces@r-project.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Use the capture.output function with printing the summary of the anova, then pass that to your function.
> 
> -- 
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> Statistical Data Center
> Intermountain Healthcare
> greg.snow@imail.org
> 801.408.8111
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Aram Fingal
> > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:16 PM
> > To: r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [R] Displaying a summary in graphics
> > 
> > 
> > On Aug 5, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Jean V Adams wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > A search of the R-help archives may provide some help.
> > >
> > > See, for example, http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/including-tabular-
> > information-with-a-plot-in-R-Graphics-tt885431.html
> > >
> > 
> > Actually, I already read through those posts and they don't address the
> > issue that I am having at all.  The text provided to textplot() and
> > addtable2plot() have to already be formatted.  They give the same
> > messed up output as mtext() does.   In addition to that, I want the
> > summary to appear outside of several other graphics objects, not inside
> > of an existing plot.
> > 
> > There is also a mention of using LaTex to process the graphics but I
> > would much rather have an easier solution than that.
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