Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:05:15 -0500
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From: Chong Gu <chong@stat.purdue.edu>
To: thomas@biostat.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [R] mathematics in R graphics
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:54:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu>
cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Chong Gu wrote:
>
> I was reading Chapter 2 of the R manual that came with 64.1, but
> couldn't get the behavior out of expressions as described in the
> manual. Is there any example on the subject? For example, "x sub i"
> is supposed to be produced by "x[i]", but where to put it? I tried
> mtext(text=x[i]) and R simply interprets that as a regular expression.
You need
mtext(text=expression(x[i]))
Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle
Thanks.
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