Try this: plot(1, main = bquote("Yield for " ~ italic(.(spp)) ~ "in management region" ~ .(region)))
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Jeremy Newman <jnewm...@uottawa.ca> wrote: > Hi all! > > I've written a handy script that uses a for loop to allow me to generate a > large number of figures and statistical outputs for a large dataset. > > I am using indexing to retrieve a species name for the title of my graphs- > which worked fine. However, I need to italicize these species names. > > I originally used the paste function, and had no problems with indexing: > > *main=paste("Yield for ", testsub[1,3], " in management region ", > testsub[1,2])* > > The title looks like: "*Yield for Gadus morhua in management region 4X5Y*" > > I tried bquote from a related help thread, I tried to emulate it: > > *spp<-testsub[1,3]* > *region<-testsub[1,2]* > * > * > *main=bquote(Yield ~ for ~ italic(.(spp)) ~ in ~ management ~ region ~ > .(region))* > > Which doesn't seem to work at all, but when I try not putting anything after > the italic: > > *main=bquote(Yield ~ for ~ italic(.(spp)))* > > I get: "*Yield for 1*" > While *spp=Gadus morhua* > > I'm at wit's end, I tried to read about substitute, expression, and eval > functions in the hopes I can figure it out, but I am lost! > > Thanks for any help! > > Cheers, > > -Jeremy N > > Undergraduate Researcher in Macroecology > University of Ottawa > Department of Biology > > Ad astra per alia porci! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.