R help - Aug 2012 - Help on Plot Title where text is "mixed" with numerical carachters

Dear All,
 
I have the following code set up:
 
x <-2000
y <-8
z <-3
 
I would need to use these numbers to show up in my plot title "mixed"
with text. The x,y,z numbers would need to change, the text would not. So my
title should look like this
 
"x txt1 y txt2 z txt3"
 
so if:
txt1=hours
txt2=minutes
txt3=seconds
 
then my title of the plot should read:   2000 hours 8 minutes 3 seconds
 
any thoughts on how to do this would be greatly apreciated
 
thanks,
 
Andras
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Look at the sprintf and paste functions (either one will do what you describe).

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Andras Farkas <motyocska at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have the following code set up:
>
> x <-2000
> y <-8
> z <-3
>
> I would need to use these numbers to show up in my plot title
"mixed" with text. The x,y,z numbers would need to change, the text
would not. So my title should look like this
>
> "x txt1 y txt2 z txt3"
>
> so if:
> txt1=hours
> txt2=minutes
> txt3=seconds
>
> then my title of the plot should read:   2000 hours 8 minutes 3 seconds
>
> any thoughts on how to do this would be greatly apreciated
>
> thanks,
>
> Andras
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
>
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?paste
 
plot(1, main = paste(x, "hours", y , "minutes", z ,
"seconds", sep =" "))

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

> -----Original Message-----
> From: motyocska at yahoo.com
> Sent: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:49:04 -0700 (PDT)
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Help on Plot Title where text is "mixed" with
numerical
> carachters
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I have the following code set up:
> 
> x <-2000
> y <-8
> z <-3
> 
> I would need to use these numbers to show up in my plot title
"mixed"
> with text. The x,y,z numbers would need to change, the text would not. So
> my title should look like this
> 
> "x txt1 y txt2 z txt3"
> 
> so if:
> txt1=hours
> txt2=minutes
> txt3=seconds
> 
> then my title of the plot should read:   2000 hours 8 minutes 3 seconds
> 
> any thoughts on how to do this would be greatly apreciated
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Andras
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> 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.
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