[R] bquote in list to be used with do.plot()

[Bert Gunter]

I think there's an error here, although it doesn't affect the result.
It should be:

L <- list(x=1, y=1,
ylab=bquote(expression(.(format(scaleY,
                                             scientific=FALSE)^"-1"))))
Bert Gunter

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On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/10/2016 12:50 PM, Marc Girondot via R-help wrote:
>>
>> Dear members,
>>
>> Has someone have a solution to include a bquote() statement in a list to
>> be used with do.call() ?
>>
>> Here is an exemple:
>>      scaleY <- 10000
>>      plot(x=1, y=1, ylab=bquote(.(format(scaleY), scientific=FALSE)^"-1"))
>>
>> Like that, it works.
>>
>> Now he same in a list:
>>      L <- list(x=1, y=1, ylab=bquote(.(format(scaleY),
>> scientific=FALSE)^"-1"))
>>      do.call(plot, L)
>>          Error in "10000"^"-1" : argument non numérique pour un
>> opérateur binaire
>>
>> It produces an error.
>>
>> Any solution?
>>
>> (I tries also with substitute() and expression() but I fail also)
>
>
> This seems to work:
>
> L <- list(x=1, y=1, ylab=bquote(expression(.(format(scaleY),
>           scientific=FALSE)^"-1")))
> do.call(plot, L)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
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