How to paste a vector of expressions and a character vector?
On Apr 1, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:
Dear David,
thanks for your reply. The paste() meant to paste the vectors vec1
and vec2 together, so main should be a vector of length 3 of the form
"a 1", "b 2", "c 3" # with b being tilde(b)
However, with c() it is a vector of length 6:
expression("a", tilde(b), "c", "1", "2", "3")
lls <-c("a", "tilde(b)","c")
mains <- bquote(.(parse(text=paste(lls,"~",nns,sep=""))) )
mains
#expression(a~1, tilde(b)~2, c~3)
#attr(,"srcfile")
<text>
attr(,"wholeSrcref")
a~1
tilde(b)~2
c~3
#-----
> mains[2]
#expression(tilde(b)~2)
plot(0,0, main=mains[2])
This would also work:
> mains2 <- as.expression(parse(text=paste(lls,"~",nns,sep="")))
> mains2
expression(a~1, tilde(b)~2, c~3)
attr(,"srcfile")
<text>
attr(,"wholeSrcref")
a~1
tilde(b)~2
c~3
I try to avoid using spaces in expressions and instead use "~"'s
because I don't really understand how spaces get parsed in expression
operations, and I do know how plotmath operations work with "~".
Do you know a solution for that? Cheers, Marius On 2011-04-01, at 19:22 , David Winsemius wrote:
On Apr 1, 2011, at 12:32 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:
Dear expeRts,
I know I can't paste expressions in the normal way, but I just
couldn't figure out
how to get the following (I want to paste a character vector to an
expression vector)
right with bquote() or substitute.
vec1 <- c("a", expression(tilde(b)), "c")
vec2 <- c("1", "2", "3")
main <- as.expression(paste(vec1, vec2))
plot(0,0, main=main[2])
Do not use `paste` ... it coerces your expression to a character value ... use `c` instead:
main <- as.expression(c(vec1, vec2)) plot(1,1, main=main[2])
And then, even the as.expression is superfluous:
main <- c(vec1, vec2) plot(1,1, main=main[2])
-- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT
David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT