R help - Feb 2000 - Placing a varialbe within a text statement.

I have a simple question.

On a plot, I would like to place text containing a calculated value.  What is
the format?

For example.

I would like the following text to appear on a plot.

The average temperature is 23.1 degrees.

I'm guessing the command is 
text( x, y, "The average temperature is " %variable name%
"degrees")

Thanks,
Matt Pocernich
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Matt Pocernich wrote:
> I have a simple question.
> 
> On a plot, I would like to place text containing a calculated value.  What
is the format?
> 
> For example.
> 
> I would like the following text to appear on a plot.
> 
> The average temperature is 23.1 degrees.
> 
> I'm guessing the command is 
> text( x, y, "The average temperature is " %variable name%
"degrees")
> 
You're guessing incorrectly.  Try

	text(x,y,paste("The average temperature is ", variable,
"degrees"))

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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