[R] two line plot title with expression problem

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Fri Feb 25 19:18:54 CET 2005


Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> > If the second line were to be text, this would not be a problem.
> > How can I format the title so that the expression starts immediately
> > under
> > the first line?
> 
> Multi-line expressions are not supported. You can add them by separate
> calls to title(), though:
> 
>   plot(1:10)
>   title("Golden Section", line=3)
>   title(expression(fn:(phi^2-phi-1)), line=2)
> 
> or for left-adjustment, try the same with calls to mtext() and
> specifying arguments "adj" and "at".

Well, plotmath does have atop(). It won't get you the same control
over alignment though.

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