[R] plot math Q: How to "plot" hat(f') ?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> In nonparametric regression and density estimation, something like
>  \hat{f'}(x)  [LaTeX]  is very natural.
> In all S dialects,
>    hat(f')
> is invalid syntax, and hence one cannot use something like
>    plot(1, main = expression(hat(f')))
> 
> I can say something like
> 
>    plot(1, main = expression(widehat(paste(f, "'"))), cex.main = 3)
> 
> but that (the R code, not the plot result) is a bit ugly.
> Nicer solutions are welcome...

well...

quote(widehat("f'"))
quote(widehat(f * "'"))
quote(widehat(f * minutes))

(I think that it is \widehat{f'} in LaTeX too, unless you mean
\hat{f}') 

quote(widehat(prime(f))) would be logical if you could push Paul to
implement prime(), but I'm not sure it is actually prettier.

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