[R] Mathematical niceties

[Douglas Bates]

"Stephen R. Laniel" <laniel at cmu.edu> writes:

> I'd like to make axis titles, chart titles, legends and the like
> mathematically nice (e.g., have proper superscripts and subscripts,
> variables in italics, and so on).  Ideally, one could go into ``math mode"
> a la LaTeX, and write something like
> 
> plot(blah, xlab="Methane in $\mbox{cm}^3$ / g", blah).
> 
> This is just an ideal, but it would be nice.  Is some approximation of this
> functionality available in R (or indeed, in S Plus)?

Quite a good approximation to this is available in R in fact.  You use
the expression function to indicate you want to use a LaTeX-like
language.

Try
 example(text)
in R to see some examples.
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