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Syntax of Math Text

3 messages · cfleming@pressroom.com, Douglas Bates, Brian Ripley

cfleming@pressroom.com
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I am looking for a reference that describes the syntax for putting 
mathematical text on a plot. I managed to discover some of the syntax in the 
manual pages for "text", "title", and "legend". In particular, I am looking 
for the syntax for making subscripts. I did not have much luck searching the 
S-news archives and http://stat.ethz.ch/R/manual/.

Thank you,

Charles Fleming
cfleming at pressroom.com
Fairfax, Virginia

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Douglas Bates
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Charles> I am looking for a reference that describes the syntax for
  Charles> putting mathematical text on a plot. I managed to discover
  Charles> some of the syntax in the manual pages for "text", "title",
  Charles> and "legend". In particular, I am looking for the syntax
  Charles> for making subscripts. I did not have much luck searching
  Charles> the S-news archives and http://stat.ethz.ch/R/manual/.

Look in the $RHOME/doc/manual directory.  There is a LaTeX source file
called plotmath.tex that provides some documentation.  If things are
set up properly in that directory you should be able to run

 make Man-plotmath.ps

and get a PostScript file of two pages of documentation.

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Brian Ripley
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On 29 Dec 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
You are not likely to find this in S-news: it is an faq (literally, hance
no caps) there, but the answers are different. One answer for S-PLUS -- use
psfrag and incorporate the figures in a LaTeX document -- is also probably
the highest-quality solution for R.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Indeed, it is one of the few things documented about R (the other
major one being the format of .Rd files).  However, I would like to
point that the the V&R `R Complements' do have a concise description
of this culled from all those sources.

Brian