Oh, I did not see this post and I just saw your message in my blog. Anyway, here is a solution for other people's future reference: http://yihui.name/en/2011/04/produce-authentic-math-formulas-in-r-graphics/
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Michael McAssey <mpmcas...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Michael P. McAssey, Ph.D. >>> Statistics for Life Sciences, Department of Mathematics >>> Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam >>> De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands >>> Office: S-230, W&N building >>> Tel: +31 (0)20 598 7724 >>> Fax: +31 (0)20 598 7653 >>> Mobile: +31 (0)62 113 8600 >>> http://www.few.vu.nl/~mmy700/ >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> > > > > -- > Michael P. McAssey, Ph.D. > Statistics for Life Sciences, Department of Mathematics > Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam > De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands > Office: S-230, W&N building > Tel: +31 (0)20 598 7724 > Fax: +31 (0)20 598 7653 > Mobile: +31 (0)62 113 8600 > http://www.few.vu.nl/~mmy700/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
