On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Beaulieu, Jake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to include the greek letter mu, in italics, in an axis title.
> The following gets close, but the mu isn't italicized.
>
> x <- 1:10
> y <- 1:10
> plot(y ~x, ylab = expression(paste('Greek ', italic(mu))))
>
The Symbol font does not accept the italic() function. I'm pretty sure this is
mentioned in the help page:
?plotmath
You may need to use mtext with a font that does have an italic mu.
--
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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