[R] Sub/Superscript in plot in a loop

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Fri Apr 8 13:44:51 CEST 2011


On Apr 7, 2011, at 9:46 PM, mavkoup wrote:

> I have a for loop with counter i and I'm producing plots where I  
> ultimately
> want to label the axes:
>
> "Entry a_i from P^q", where a, P and q are just letters, and i is  
> the value
> of the for loop counter.
>
> I've tried various combinations of paste, expression and substitute,  
> but I
> can't get this to work nicely.

I'll bet you haven't tried:

as.expression(bquote(Entry~.(a)[.(i)]~from~.(P)^.(q)))


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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT



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