[R] Double inequality with plotmath

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Thu Jan 21 21:59:32 CET 2010


On 21/01/2010 3:50 PM, Mark Seeto wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm fairly new to R and I can't work out how to produce a double
> inequality like (LaTeX) $0 \leq x \leq 1$ in the legend of a graph. If
> I try
>
> > legend(50, 0.1, legend = c(expression(0 <= x <= 1), c(2 <= x <= 3)), pch = c(1,1), col = c(2, 3))
>
> then I get an error message "unexpected '<=' in ...". I've checked the
> help files for plotmath and expression, but could not find a solution.
>   

That's not legal R syntax, so you have to cheat.  For example,

legend(50, 0.1, legend = expression(paste(0 <= x) <= 1, paste(2 <= x) <= 
3), pch = c(1,1), col = c(2, 3))

Duncan Murdoch



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