[R] Bold in expression in Y label

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 24, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Katherine Lizama Allende wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I need to put bold font in the y label, which is an expression at  
> the same
> time
>
> When putting font.lab=2 in plot, it only puts bold font for the x axis
> label.. what should I do? Thanks very much
>
> plot(jitter(c(1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13), a=0.1), y = Bllim.m, xlab =  
> "Week", ylab
> = expression(paste("B removal rate", " (mg/m"^{3}, "- 
> d)")),font.lab=2, ylim
> = c(-1000,9000), xlim = c(0, 14), pch = 22,  axes= FALSE, cex = 0.1)
>
I don't know why, (and I was not familiar with font.lab as an  
arguemnt, nor can I find its documentation) ...  but I can offer a  
solution:

plot(1,1, xlab = "Week", font.lab=2,ylab =  
expression(bold(B~removal~rate~mg/m^{3}*-d)), cex = 0.1)

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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT