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Hello, I'm trying to read data in from a file using scan(). The last field is a character string that contains blanks. I had read it in in S-Plus using this code: ifile <- list(entry=0,measure=0,st=0,count=0,score=0, error=0,inmsq=0,instd=0,outms=0,outstd=0,displc=0,ptbis=0,a=0, r="",name="") if.widths <- c(1, 5, 8, 3, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 2, 2, 85) d1 <- scan(file=fd,ifile,flush=T,skip=0,widths=if.widths) The name variable is a character string that contains blanks, is of varying length (maximum length is 85), varyin...

...aphic is saved to a postscript file under Windows. The problem came to light when using plotmath to label a plot with latitudes containing degree symbols. If expression(40 * degree) is used it is written on the default line for labels. If expression(paste(40 * degree, " S") is used it displced closer to the axis. Pasting any character (except "") has this effect. The following code illustrates the problem. par(mfrow =c(3,2)) # plotmath not used plot(seq(-41, -40, 0.5), c(0, 1, 0), type = "n", xlab = "latitude", ylab = "", xaxt = "n"...