I think that bquote, with its .() operator, suffices for [almost?] any single title; don't bother fiddling with expression(), substitute(), or parse(). (You can make those work in many situations, but if you stick with just bquote then you can spend your time on the title itself.)
E.g., hist(new, main=bquote("Heart Attack (" * bar(X)==.(mean(new)) * ")")) or, if you want to limit the number of digits after the decimal point, hist(new, main=bquote("Heart Attack (" * bar(X)==.(round(mean(new),1)) * ")")) Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of 1Rnwb > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:32 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] characters, mathematical expressions and computed values > > Hello, > > I have to add "Age (bar(x)=14.3) as a title on a chart. I am unable to get > this to working. I have tried bquote, substitute and expression, but they > are only doing a part of the job. > > new<- > c(14.3, 18.5, 18.1, 17.7, 18, 15.9, 19.6, 17.3, 17.8, 17.5, 15.4, > 16.3, 15, 17.1, 17.1, 16.4, 15.2, 16.7, 16.7, 16.9, 14.5, 16.6, > 15.8, 15.2, 16.2, 15.6, 15, 17.1, 16.7, 15.6, 15, 15.8, 16.8, > 17, 15.2, 15.8, 15.7, 14.7, 17.3, 14.9, 16.8, 14.6, 19.3, 15.3, > 14.7, 13.3, 16.5, 16, 14.2, 16.1, 15.2, 13.4, 17.7, 15.5, 14.5, > 15.7, 13.6, 14.1, 20, 17.2, 16.5, 14.3, 13.7, 14.7, 15.4, 13.6, > 17, 17.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.6, 15.8, 15.7, 14.7, 14.2, 14.2, 14, > 14.2, 19.1, 17.2, 18.3, 13.9, 16, 15.9, 14.9, 14.6, 15.9, 12.2, > 14.1, 12, 12.8, 17.1, 17, 15, 15.8, 15.9, 16.1, 18, 14.7, 18.9 > ) > hist(new, xlab='30-day Death Rate',xlim=c(7,22),main=expression("Heart > Attack(" * bar(X) * ")=" * > mean(new))) > > I would appreciate any pointers on getting this correct. > Thanks > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/characters-mathematical- > expressions-and-computed-values-tp4645916.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. ______________________________________________ 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.