FYI I see everything after the '^' as a superscript. The '~' does act as a space. (When I omit it there is less space between the '-' and the '('.
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Jinsong Zhao <jsz...@yeah.net> wrote: > hi there, > > I find the following codes produce strange output. > > plot(1:10, xlab = expression(NO[3]^-~(mg/L))) > > you will notice that the unit, mg/L is in superscript format. > That means that "~" is not for space. > However, the help page of plotmath does not mention this behavior. > > Best, > Jinsong > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.