Dear all, I'm puzzled with matrix indices in plotmath. I'm plotting matrix elements: Z [i, i], and I'd like to put that as label. I'll describe what I want and what I get in LaTeX-notation. The output should look like Z_{i, i}, and my first try was plot (1, 1, ylab = expression (Z[i, i])) That, however, gives me Z_{i} (no comma, no second i) although the expression looks OK to me: > a <- expression (Z[i, i]) > a [[1]] Z[i, i] > str (as.list (a [[1]])) List of 4 $ : symbol [ $ : symbol Z $ : symbol i $ : symbol i I'm able to tweak the ouput looking as I want: plot (1, 1, ylab = expression (Z[i][", "][i])) which is, however, logically very far from what I want to express. What am I missing? I'm almost sure this has been discussed before, but I can't find it: can anyone point me to good search terms? Is it possible to search for the terms being close to each other in RSiteSearch and/or RSeek? I get lots of introductory documents as they point to plotmath and discuss matrices... Thanks a lot for your help, Claudia -- Claudia Beleites Dipartimento dei Materiali e delle Risorse Naturali Universit? degli Studi di Trieste Via Alfonso Valerio 6/a I-34127 Trieste phone: +39 0 40 5 58-37 68 email: cbeleites at units.it