[R] Greek letters in plots

[Peter Dalgaard]

Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at mn.rr.com> writes:

> Try this:
> 
>   cor2 <- 0.74
>   plot(1:5)
>   title(bquote(rho == .(cor2)))
> 
> See ?plotmath and ?bquote for more information, noting the use of
> the .(Variable) syntax for variable substitution.

Yep, bquote() is nice. Other solutions include

  substitute(rho == . , list( . = cor2))

which I suppose is pretty much what bquote does internally
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