[R] Plot math symbol with string and number

Bert Gunter bgunter@4567 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Mon Aug 17 02:10:19 CEST 2020


Specifically, see the "how to combine "math" and numeric variables" in the
Examples therein.

Bert Gunter

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On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 3:18 PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:

> ?plotmath
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 14:53 John Smith <jswhct using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Helpers,
>>
>> I would like to make plots with titles for different data sets and
>> different parameters. So a useful title should combine data name
>> and parameter for clarity. The following is a simplified code example with
>> two plots. The first title doesn't show sigma as a math symbol, while the
>> second one doesn't contain the s value as a numeric value - I could
>> manually change the s value, but when there are many different s values,
>> this is not a good solution. Thanks!
>>
>> s <- 1
>> y <- rnorm(100)
>> plot(y, main=paste("data", "sigma=", s))
>> plot(y, main=expression(paste("data", sigma,"=", s)))
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