Also have a look at
http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su07/R/html/grDevices/html/plotmath.html for a
list of terms.
Oh and it's called Xbar or X-bar.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dcarlson at tamu.edu
> Sent: Wed, 6 May 2015 16:33:01 +0000
> To: tacsunday at yahoo.fr, r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Special character is graph label
>
> You do this with plotmath (see the manual page, ?plotmath):
>
>> plot(rnorm(10), rnorm(10), xlab=expression(bar(X)))
>
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> David L Carlson
> Department of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77840-4352
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Robert U
> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 8:10 AM
> To: R-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Special character is graph label
>
> Dear R users,
> I am having issues finding a special character (and how to insert it) in
> the lab of a graph axis.
>
> Let us say that the label of my axis is "X", i would like the X
to have a
> "line" over it, indicating that it is the "mean of X
values" (i don't
> even know how to properly state that in english...). Does someone
> understand, and have any idea about how to do that?
> Greetings,
> R.H
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