[R] Substitute in legend

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

partha_bagchi at hgsi.com writes:

> I tried to use substitute in legend as follows:
> 
> pval <- 0.04
> plot(0)
> legend(1,0.5,substitute(hat(theta) == p, list(p = pval)))
> 
> For some reason the legend is repeated 3 times. 
> 
> Any suggestions or is this a bug?

It's a bug. The code is looking at length(legend), but that is not the
number of legends when mode "call" objects are concerned. A workaround
is 

legend(1,0.5,as.expression(substitute(hat(theta) == p, list(p = pval))))

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