Adding greek character to axis title

Question

I want to add a greek character to the y-axis of my barplot in R.
The problem is that I need this character to be integrated in the title. I want to write:

Answer 1

I think I followed your question properly. The ~ forces a space between characters in a call to expression(). Is this what you want?

plot(1:3, ylab = expression("Diameter of apeture (" * mu ~ "m)"),
  , xlab = expression("Force spaces with ~" ~ mu ~ pi * sigma ~ pi)
  , main = expression("This is another Greek character with space" ~ sigma))