[R] Labelling R plots using Greek letters

[Yihui Xie]

A short answer is you can consider the tikzDevice package; then a long
(really really long) answer is this:
http://yihui.github.com/knitr/demo/graphics/

Regards,
Yihui
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Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 7:17 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 11, 2011, at 6:38 PM, john james wrote:
>
>> Dear R Users,
>>
>>
>> Please I have the following query. I want to label  one of the axes of my
>> graph with the follwing latex expression- \beta^{\prime}x, i.e I have the
>> transpose of beta. How do I go abt this.
>>
>> My second query is similar but it has to do with the conditioning symbol.
>> The other axis is to be labelled as Y|X + \beta^{\prime}x.
>
>
> ?plotmath
>
> plot(1,1, xlab=expression(beta^"`"*X), ylab=expression(Y*"|"*X+beta^"`"*X) )
>
> (Unfortunately the prime on the y lab is noe on the printed page in my
> device ( mac). so this hack seems to work better)
>
> plot(1,1, xlab=expression(beta^"'"*X), ylab=expression(over(phantom(""),
> Y*"|"*X+beta^"'"*X) ))
>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much as I await assistance on this.
>>
>> John
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