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Bold Face in Plot

Greg Snow

Mon, Mar 2, 2009 7:58 PM

Here is one way:

thestring <- "the-actual-string"
plot(0:1,0:1,type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=bquote(bold(.(thestring))))

There is an example in the plotmath help page that shows using bquote (but that page has so much information that I did not find it on my first scan through even knowing what to look for).

Hope this helps,

Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Rau, Roland
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 6:46 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Bold Face in Plot
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to plot some text in bold face which works fine:
> 
> plot(0:1,0:1,type="n")
> text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(bold("the-actual-string")))
> 
> Now when I try to do the following, the displayed text reads thestring:
> 
> thestring <- "the-actual-string"
> plot(0:1,0:1,type="n")
> text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(bold(thestring)))
> 
> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I assume it is rather simple
> but I am stuck somehow.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Roland
> 
> P.S. I tried it using ("ancient") R 2.7.0 on Windows32 and version
> 2.8.1
> on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 8.10).
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