[R] Greek letters in legend without a space

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Thu Feb 7 23:07:21 CET 2008


ming kung wrote:
> I am trying to make a figure legend that says "uM" (but replace "u" with
> mu).
>
> When I use the following script, my legend looks more like "u M", rather
> than "uM".
>
>   
>> legend(1,1, c(expression(1~mu~M)))
>>     
>
> How do I get rid of the space R places in when using the expression command
> to insert a greek letter?
>   
legend(1,1, expression(1~mu*M))

(I'm surprised that c() in there didn't screw things up...)

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