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Plot degree symbol by itself

3 messages · Andre Jung, Henrik Andersson, Peter Dalgaard

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Dear all,

I'm trying to plot the degree symbol by itself between two square
brackets. I just want to have "K [?]". So far I got to:

expression(K ~ group("[",1*degree,"]"))
or
expression(K ~ group("[",1^o,"]"))

But it won't work without a number or letter.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
andre
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Andre Jung wrote:
This worked for me:
expression(K ~ group("[",degree,"]"))

  
    
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Andre Jung wrote:
An empty pair of braces usually works:

plot(0)
text(1,1,expression(K ~ group("[",{}*degree,"]")))

(or {}^degree, but that looks odd -- degree is already a raised symbol)

But whatever was wrong with just
 
text(1.2,1,expression(K ~ group("[",degree,"]")))

??