[R] math symbols and text with mtext()

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

m <- 5; beta <- c(-1, 1)
plot(1, main = bquote(atop(beta == .(deparse(beta)),
   "Expected number of true positives" == .(m))))


On 7/31/06, Juan Lewinger <lewinger at usc.edu> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Is there a way to simplify the mtext() line below ?
>
> beta=c(1,-1)
> m=5
> plot(1)
> mtext( bquote(paste( beta == .(paste( "(", paste(beta, collapse=", "), ")" )) )), outer=TRUE,line=-3)
>
> 2) How do I get the embedded carriage return "\n" below to work, i.e for the text that follows it to appear on the next line?
>
> beta=c(1,-1)
> m=5
> plot(1)
> mtext( bquote(paste( beta == .(paste( "(", paste(beta, collapse=", "), ") " )),
>                         "\n Expected # of true positives = ", .(m))), outer=TRUE, line=-3)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Juan Pablo Lewinger, Ph.D.
> Department of Preventive Medicine
> Keck School of Medicine
> University of Southern California
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>