On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > > I had such good luck with my previous question to r-help, (a few minutes > ago) that I thought I would try again with the following query: > >> Suppose I have >> >> xNm <- "gamma" >> >> I would like to be able to do >> >> plot(1:10,xlab = <something involving xNm">) >> >> and get the x axis label to be the Greek letter gamma >> (rather than the literal text string "gamma"). >> >> Is this possible? I've messed around with substitute() >> and bquote() and got nowhere. > > > Then, just before clicking on "Send", I had one more thimk, and blow > me down, I got something that worked: > > plot(1:10,xlab=eval(expression(parse(text=xNm)))) >
That can be shortened to: plot(0, xlab = parse(text = xNm)) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
