Message-ID: <x2elso1diu.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2001-06-13T17:43:37Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: plot math Q: How to "plot" hat(f') ?
In-Reply-To: Martin Maechler's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:13:17 +0200"
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
> In nonparametric regression and density estimation, something like
> \hat{f'}(x) [LaTeX] is very natural.
> In all S dialects,
> hat(f')
> is invalid syntax, and hence one cannot use something like
> plot(1, main = expression(hat(f')))
>
> I can say something like
>
> plot(1, main = expression(widehat(paste(f, "'"))), cex.main = 3)
>
> but that (the R code, not the plot result) is a bit ugly.
> Nicer solutions are welcome...
well...
quote(widehat("f'"))
quote(widehat(f * "'"))
quote(widehat(f * minutes))
(I think that it is \widehat{f'} in LaTeX too, unless you mean
\hat{f}')
quote(widehat(prime(f))) would be logical if you could push Paul to
implement prime(), but I'm not sure it is actually prettier.
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