Thanks for the help - both solutions work fine.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>wrote:

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> On 09.08.2012 18:05, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>> On 09/08/2012 11:52 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
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>>> On 09.08.2012 13:56, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>> > On 12-08-08 9:21 PM, Hillary Ward wrote:
>>> >> I'm having problems creating an axis label for a plot.
>>> >>
>>> >> y_label = expression(paste(plain('CPUE
>>> >> '),plain('(fish'),plain('x'),**plain('h'^{-1}),plain(')')))
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>>> >> I'd like to replace the "x" with an interpunct symbol (dot). Any
>>> >> suggestions how to do this?
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>>> > The interpunct symbol is \u00b7 in Unicode.  You could try that, i.e.
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>>> > y_label = expression(paste(plain('CPUE
>>> > '),plain('(fish'),plain('\**u00b7'),plain('h'^{-1}),plain(**')')))
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>>> > It might not work if your graphics device doesn't support Unicode.
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>>> As I explained yesterday in another mail with that question (so
>>> apparently it is a homework problem we should not answer at all), one
>>> could use the UTF-8 encoded version by
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>>>    options("OutDec"="\xB7")
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>>> and just start the plotting ...
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>> Yes, I saw your message, which is how I knew the symbol exists.  But I
>> think the question is different:  this one isn't being used as a decimal
>> point, just a dot in a formula.
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> Oh, sorry, should read more carefully:
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> Several years ago I added %.% to the plotmath syntax symbols for that
> reason, see ?plotmath, hence:
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> plot(1, main = expression(CPUE(fish %.% h^{-1})))
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> seems to do the right thing.
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> Best,
> Uwe
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