R devel - May 1997 - R-alpha: Equations in Plots

Paul Murrell and I are making some progress with making mathematical
expressions available in graphs.  The idea is to use R expressions to
represent the mathematical expressions.  So far we have (or will soon
have):

	R		LaTeX

	x^i		x^i
	x[i]		x_i
	alpha		\alpha
	Alpha		\Alpha
	hat(x)		\hat{x}	\widehat{x}
	bar(x)		\bar{x} \overline{x}
	x+y		x+y
	x-y		x-y
	x/y		x/y
	(x)		(x)
	{x}		{x}
	frac(x,y)	\frac{x}{y}
	cdots		\cdots
	ldots		\ldots
	
We are wondering how far to go with this process.  Does the above
cover what people want, or are there important omitted features
(we don't really want to do all of TeX).

We are prototyping this in lisp and it will be a little while before
it finds its way onto R.
	Ross
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On Thu, 8 May 1997, Ross Ihaka wrote:
> Paul Murrell and I are making some progress with making mathematical
> expressions available in graphs.  The idea is to use R expressions to
> represent the mathematical expressions.  So far we have (or will soon
> have):
<things> 	
> We are wondering how far to go with this process.  Does the above
> cover what people want, or are there important omitted features
> (we don't really want to do all of TeX).
> 
I would really like to have the whole Greek alphabet or at least rho, mu
sigma and chi.


Thomas Lumley
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