R devel - Jan 2011 - plotmath indices: suggested addition to help file

Dear all,

I just stumbled over the fact that subsetting by square bracket will only output
the first given index. I guess the rest is thrown away by the CADDR in RenderSub
(plotmath.c l. 1399).
Maybe changing this could be considered as "low-priority desired"
(would be nice
if the output works for ?

However, I suggest to announce the fact that only the first parameter is printed
in plotmath.Rd.

E.g. in the table l. 72
\code{x[i]}   \tab x subscript i; escape further indices (\code{x ["i,
j"]})\cr

Claudia

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Thank you, Claudia,
>>>>> "CB" == Claudia Beleites <cbeleites at
units.it>
>>>>>     on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:05:41 +0100 writes:
    CB> Dear all, I just stumbled over the fact that subsetting
    CB> by square bracket will only output the first given
    CB> index. I guess the rest is thrown away by the CADDR in
    CB> RenderSub (plotmath.c l. 1399).  Maybe changing this
    CB> could be considered as "low-priority desired" (would be
    CB> nice if the output works for ?

I agree this is a  ``missing feature'' and well worth wish list item.

    CB> However, I suggest to announce the fact that only the
    CB> first parameter is printed in plotmath.Rd.

    CB> E.g. in the table l. 72
    CB>  \code{x[i]} \tab x subscript i;  escape further indices (\code{x
["i, j"]})\cr

How would get the equivalent of  LaTeX  x_{i_1, j_2}  ?
Not by making it a string (that's not  escape, I'd say),
but by something like

    plot(0, axes=FALSE, main= expression(paste(x[i[1]],{}[j[2]])))

which works +-  
but of course is unnecessarily ugly, compared to the desired

    plot(0, axes=FALSE, main= expression(      x[i[1], j[2]]))

Martin

    CB> Claudia