Hi, Thank you *very* much. I'll remember that in the future!
Cheers, -Jeremy N Undergraduate Researcher in Macroecology University of Ottawa Department of Biology Ad astra per alia porci! On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna <www...@gmail.com>wrote: > Better: > > plot(1, main = bquote("Yield for " ~ italic(.(as.character(spp))) ~ > "in management region" ~ .(region))) > > You have a factor, so you need convert it to character > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna <www...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Henrique Dallazuanna > Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil > 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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