[R] Quiz: Who finds the nicest form of X_1^\prime?

[Yihui Xie]

the tikzDevice package has offered a way to write native LaTeX
expressions in R plots, so no tricks are really needed there

Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Marius Hofert <m_hofert at web.de> wrote:
> Very nice!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
>
> On 2011-04-07, at 04:38 , Dennis Murphy wrote:
>
>> Here are a couple more possibilities:
>>
>> plot(0, 0, main = expression(italic(X)[1]^bold(scriptscriptstyle("/"))))
>> plot(0, 0, main = expression(italic(X)[1]^bolditalic(scriptscriptstyle("/"))))
>>
>> The latter increases the angle a tad.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Dennis
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>> On 2011-04-06 15:21, Marius Hofert wrote:
>> Haha, I found a hack (using the letter "l"):
>>
>> plot(0,0,main=expression(italic(X)[1]^bolditalic("l")))
>>
>> To my eye, this is a bit neater:
>>
>>  expression(italic(X)[1]^bold("/"))
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marius
>>
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