Initially, I wanted to remove the suffixes, but now I want to end up with the following
c("A_ugkg_FA","S_mgkg_XRF" ,"Cl_mgkg_XR") -1 A (ug kg ) FA -1 S (mg kg ) XRF -1 Cl (mg kg ) XR Thanks all On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:48 PM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > May be this helps: > > gsub("_"," ",gsub("(.*)_.*","\\1",DATA_names)) > #[1] "A ugkg" "S mgkg" "Cl mgkg" > sapply(gsub("_"," ",gsub("(.*)_.*","\\1",DATA_names)),f) > $`A ugkg` > A ~ (mu * g ~ kg^{ > -1 > }) > > $`S mgkg` > S ~ (mg ~ kg^{ > -1 > }) > > $`Cl mgkg` > Cl ~ (mg ~ kg^{ > -1 > }) > > > A.K. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Shane Carey <careys...@gmail.com> > To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:20 AM > Subject: [R] Labelling > > Hi, > > I have the following data as labels: > > DATA_names<-c("A_ugkg_FA","S_mgkg_XRF" ,"Cl_mgkg_XR") > > and I need to convert to > > > -1 > A (ug kg ) > > -1 > S (mg kg ) > > -1 > Cl (mg kg ) > > > I used the following piece of code to convert the following labels in the > past, but cant get it to work for the new labels: > > f <- function (name) > { > # add other suffices and their corresponding plotmath expressions to the > list > env <- list2env(list(mgkg = bquote(mg ~ kg^{-1}), > ugkg = bquote(mu * g ~ kg^{-1})), > parent = emptyenv()) > pattern <- paste0("(", paste(objects(env), collapse="|"), ")") > bquoteExpr <- parse(text=gsub(pattern, > "~(.(\\1))", > name))[[1]] > # I use do.call() to work around the fact that bquote's first argument is > not evaluated. > do.call(bquote, list(bquoteExpr, env)) > } > > The labels in the past were: > DATA_names<-c("A_ugkg","S_mgkg" ,"Cl_mgkg") > > Thanks > > -- > Shane > > [[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. > > -- Shane [[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.