Plot math symbol with string and number
On 2020-08-17 03:13, Rasmus Liland wrote:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 3:18 PM Bert wrote:
| On Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 14:53 John wrote:
| |
| | I would like to make plots with
| | titles for different data sets and
| | different parameters. 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
| |
| | s <- 1
| | y <- rnorm(100)
| | plot(y, main=paste("data", "sigma=", s))
| | plot(y, main=expression(paste("data", sigma,"=", s)))
|
| ?plotmath
Dear John, read ?plotmath, it is good, I
was not aware of its existence; then
backquote s like so:
Plotmath seems to be the right way to do it. But without reading
plotmath I'd have gone with this:
plot(y, main=paste("data", "\u03C3=", s))