On Nov 12, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Bob O'Hara wrote:
> I have a simple (!) problem. What I want to do is to create a
> legend with
> Greek letters, and substituting numbers into the legend. Like this:
>
> mu=1:3
> Mean=rep(mu, each=20)
> plot(runif(60), rnorm(60,Mean,0.1), pch=Mean) # create a plot
> legend(0.6,1.7, paste("mu =", 1:3), pch=mu)
>
> but with a Greek letter mu.
# First:
library(fortunes)
fortune("dog")
Searching in R-search reveals that Bill Dunlap has offered a few
solutions to prior such questions. This is an adaptation of the
shortest solution from:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp08/2009-August/209677.html
mu1=1:3 #
Mean=rep(mu1, each=20)
plot(runif(60), rnorm(60,Mean,0.1), pch=Mean) # create a plot
legend(0.6,1.7, as.expression(lapply(mu1, function(m) bquote(mu==.
(m)))), pch=mu1)
--
David>
> I think the solution has something to do with substitute() possibly
> along
> with and eval(), paste() and probably a few other functions. But
> the help
> page is remarkably unhelpful: it seems to have been written for
> people who
> work with the underlying code, and not for us mere mortals. Could
> someone
> explain how to do this?
>
> Bob
>
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