[R] xlab=expression(...) won't work.

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, STAT wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I found that the plotmath seems won't work on xlab in plot 
> (and other plot functions including matplot, contour, ...):
> 
> > plot(1:10, 1:10, xlab=expression(alpha))

Yes. This is about the fourth report of this bug, which is fixed for 
R1.1.1 (coming fairly soon) or in the daily R-patched version.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle


> 
> the plot shows nothing for x-label.
> 
>  My R-version is R.1.1.0
> > version
>          _         
> platform Windows   
> arch     x86       
> os       Win32     
> system   x86, Win32
> status             
> major    1         
> minor    1.0       
> year     2000      
> month    June      
> day      15        
> language R  
> 
> However, xlab=expression(alpha) correctly shows up on x-label
> by using previous version: R.1.0.1.
> 
> Hope this is not a bug for R.1.1.0!
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> C. Joseph Lu
> Department of Statistics
> National Cheng-Kung University
> Tainan, Taiwan
> E-mail: cjlu at email.stat.ncku.edu.tw
> 
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Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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