[R] Plotmath expression

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Tue Oct 24 18:26:46 CEST 2006



Christos Hatzis wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I've been trying to plot a subscript in a text formula using plotmath but I
> haven't been able to do so.
>  
> In my example below I would like the text label to show
> X[min] = 10.1 +/- 5.5 
> 
> Here is the code:
> 
> ll <- c(x=10.1, sde=5.5)
> plot(1:10)
> text(x=9, y=2, pos=2, expression(paste(X[min], "=", paste(ll,
> collapse="+/-"))))


  plot(1:10)
  text(x=9, y=2, pos=2, substitute(X[min] == x %+-% sde, as.list(ll)))

Uwe Ligges

> This works fine up to the inner paste call that collapses the vector values.
> I also tried assigning the value of the inner paste to a variable and then
> use it inside the expression but that did not work either:
> 
> ll.txt <- paste(ll, collapse="+/-")
> text(x=9, y=2, pos=2, expression(paste(X[min], "=", ll.txt)))
> 
> Any help is much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
>  
> Christos Hatzis, Ph.D.
> Nuvera Biosciences, Inc.
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> Woburn, MA 01801
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> 
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