[R] expression()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, javier garcia-pintado wrote:

> Thanks you,
> this works right.
>
> I just would like to note one thing:
> although I've found italic() in the help for plotmath and I can see that
> the italic function:
>
> mtext(expression(italic(beta)[max]),side=1,line=2)
>
> does not work on the greek beta character.

No, and there is no italic symbol font in the R graphics model so no means 
of plotting such a symbol.

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