Would be nice to put those two way examples in the documentation of the function 'expression' and 'bquote' in the next R version (we are in the base) for other users ;-) I am sure many would enjoy.
Le 20/10/2019 à 19:15, Patrick Giraudoux a écrit : > Great ! You have helped to solve a problem on which I was sweating > (sporadically, however) since months... > > Thanks, > > Best, > > > Le 20/10/2019 à 18:29, Bert Gunter a écrit : >> The legend must be "an expression vector." >> c("Sans renard",bquote(.(densren) (ind./km)^2)) is not because the >> first element is a character string. >> >> This works: >> >> plot(1:100,1:100,type="n") >> legend(list(x=0,y=100),legend=c(expression("Sans >> renard"),bquote(.(densren) >> (ind./km)^2)),lty=c(1,2),col=c("black","red"),bty="n") >> >> Cheers, >> Bert >> >> >> Bert Gunter >> >> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming >> along and sticking things into it." >> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 9:02 AM Patrick Giraudoux >> <patrick.giraud...@univ-fcomte.fr >> <mailto:patrick.giraud...@univ-fcomte.fr>> wrote: >> >> Thanks Bert and Peter, >> >> Yes Bert, I was aware of the legend() function syntax, and just >> quoting the legend argument within the function. >> >> However, Bert and Peter, I do not understand why it works with >> your absolutely reproducible examples and not in the slightly >> (not so slightly apparently) different context where I used it... >> >> densren=1.25 >> plot(1:100,1:100,type="n") >> legend(list(x=0,y=100),legend=c("Sans renard",bquote(.(densren) >> (ind./km)^2)),lty=c(1,2),col=c("black","red"),bty="n") >> >> densren=1.25 >> plot(1:100,1:100,type="n") >> legend(list(x=0,y=100),legend=c("Sans renard",bquote(.(densren) * >> " ind."/"km"^2)),lty=c(1,2),col=c("black","red"),bty="n" >> >> Probably because the result of bquote() is concatenated in a >> character vector, but how to deal with this ? >> >> Best, >> >> Patrick >> >> >> >> Le 20/10/2019 à 16:42, Bert Gunter a écrit : >>> Assuming you are using base graphics, your syntax for adding the >>> legend appears to be wrong. >>> legend() is a separate function, not a parameter of plot.default >>> afaics. >>> >>> The following works for me: >>> >>> > densren <- 1.25 >>> > plot(1:10) >>> > legend (x="center", legend =bquote(.(densren) (ind./km)^2)) >>> >>> See ?legend >>> >>> Bert Gunter >>> >>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming >>> along and sticking things into it." >>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 5:30 AM Patrick Giraudoux >>> <patrick.giraud...@univ-fcomte.fr >>> <mailto:patrick.giraud...@univ-fcomte.fr>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear listers, >>> >>> I am trying to pass an expression inlcuding a variable and a >>> superpscript to a legend. What I want to obtain is e.g. with >>> densren = 1.25 >>> >>> 1.25 ind./km^2 >>> >>> I have tried many variants of the following: >>> >>> legend=bquote(.(densren) (ind./km)^2) >>> >>> but if not errors, do obtain >>> >>> 1.25 (ind./km^2) >>> >>> hence not what I want (no parenthesis, 2 in superscript...) >>> >>> Any idea about a correct syntax to get what I need ? >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Patrick >>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing >>> list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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. >>> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.