Baptiste,
Thank you. The examples in the documentation for tikz helped me solve
this problem, and give me a good tool for future plots. I only need
to figure out how to incorporate LaTeX packages like amssymb so that I
can use \mathbb{} to put the real numbers symbol in my plot.
Regards,
Michael
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, baptiste auguie
<baptiste.aug...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Through pgfSweave you can use the tikz device, which is the one that
> can interpret Latex code (package tikzDevice). I would start with a
> minimal self-contained plot with this function. see ?tikz for
> examples.
>
> HTH,
>
> baptiste
>
>
>
>
> On 15 April 2011 20:03, Michael McAssey <mpmcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ben,
>>
>> This example of pgfSweave looks like it would address my problem. I
>> installed this package, but I cannot determine how to use it to make R
>> convert LaTeX commands into mathematical symbols on an R plot. The
>> documentation does not seem to address this. I tried to mimic the
>> example from Yihui Xie that you provided but R only puts the LaTeX
>> code on my plot without converting it. That is, if in the R GUI I
>> have:
>>
>>> library(pgfSweave)
>>> plot(1:10, 1:10, "$Y=\\beta_0 + \\beta_1 x + \\epsilon$")
>>
>> then in the plot the y-axis label is $Y=\beta_0 + \beta_1 x +
>> \epsilon$ rather than what I want. I can't find any useful help on
>> Google. Any further suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael McAssey <mpmcassey <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > I need to include some mathematical expressions in a plot I am creating in
>>> > R, one of which requires an underbrace, which in LaTeX would be written
>>> > like
>>> >
>>> > \underbrace{T \cdots T}_{n times}
>>> >
>>> > There does not appear to be a provision for this in plotmath, and I cannot
>>> > find anything on the topic in the R-help archive or in a Google search. I
>>> > would appreciate some help with this.
>>>
>>> Does
>>>
>>> <http://yihui.name/en/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lyx-pgfsweave-demo.pdf>
>>>
>>> help at all?
>>>
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