Help with expression
Thanks. Exactly what I wanted. As usual, I played around with all sorts of things to try and get the expression right, but never thought of as.name. David Scott
On 25/01/2011 4:32 a.m., Charles C. Berry wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, David Scott wrote:
I have a problem with expressions. I am trying to create a title where the parameter of interest is displayed as a Greek character. Which parameter is being considered is stored in a character variable. As an example, if I have param<- "alpha"
param<- as.name("alpha")
HTH,
Chuck
and then do plot(0, 0, main = bquote(Parameter==.(param))) then in the title I get "Parameter = alpha", whereas I want the Greek character alpha. David Scott --
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Charles C. Berry Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu UC San Diego http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901
_________________________________________________________________ David Scott Department of Statistics The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland 1142, NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 Email: d.scott at auckland.ac.nz, Fax: +64 9 373 7018 Director of Consulting, Department of Statistics