[R] greek letters, text, and values in labels

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Jul 25 22:41:09 CEST 2006


Try:

   plot(1:10, main = bquote("Results for" ~ theta == .(theta)))


On 7/25/06, Adrian Dragulescu <adrian_d at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to have a title that will look something like:
> "Results for \theta=2.1", given that I have a variable theta=2.1, and
> \theta should show on the screen like the greek letter.
>
> I've tried a lot of things:
> theta <- 2.1
> plot(1:10, main=expression(paste("Results for", theta, "=", eval(theta))))
>
> or using bquote
> plot(1:10, main=paste("Results for ", bquote(theta == .(theta))))
>
> or using substitute, etc.  I could not make it work.  This should be easy.
>
> I would appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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