[R] Math expression in R plot

[David Winsemius]

On Sep 21, 2012, at 8:19 AM, arun wrote:

> Hi,
> Try this:
> plot(0,0)
>  title(expression(paste(plain("Estimator vs. "),eta,sep=" ")))
> A.K.

Will not throw an error, but perpetuates the misconception that plotmath paste() has a 'sep' argument. The space comes from the first argument and the sep argument if it were visible would occur _after_ the eta.

-- 
David.


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> From: li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:04 AM
> Subject: [R] Math expression in R plot
> 
> Dear all,
>    In my R plot, I would like to add the title as "Estimator vs. Eta",
> where I want to use the greek letter eta.
> I was trying to use expression(plain("Estimator  vs.") *eta* ). It does not
> seem to work.
> Can anyone familiar with this give some help?
> 
>   Thank you very much.
>        Hannah
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David Winsemius, MD
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