[R] : bquote inside legend() - TANKS!

[Monica Pisica]

Hi,

Thanks so much, i even don't know why i felt the compulsion to complicate myself with the legend and bquote ;-) Fancy code is not necessarily the best - i may say!

Again, thanks,

Monica

> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:49:04 -0400
> From: ssefick at gmail.com
> To: pisicandru at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R] : bquote inside legend()
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>
> #Code begin:
> # -------------------
> a = 2 # result of a function for example
> plot(1:10, a*(1:10))
>
> #here you go
> legend(1, 20, paste("value", "=" , a, sep=" "), title="Legend" ,bty = 'n')
>
> val <- substitute("value" ==.(a), list(a = a))
> legend(6, 5, do.call("expression",list("Legend", val)), bty = 'n')
>
> # -------------------
> # Code end
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Monica Pisica  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a graph and I would like to write some values inside the legend that were saved in a variable. Please revise the code below in which I've wrote 2 different legends, but I am not happy with either of them. What I want is a legend with tile "Legend" and underneath a line with a name and a value like that: value = 2.
>>
>> #Code begin:
>> # -------------------
>> a = 2 # result of a function for example
>> plot(1:10, a*(1:10))
>>
>> legend(1, 20, c("Legend", bquote(value ==.(a))), bty = 'n')
>>
>> val <- substitute("value" ==.(a), list(a = a))
>> legend(6, 5, do.call("expression",list("Legend", val)), bty = 'n')
>>
>> # -------------------
>> # Code end
>>
>> In the first legend I don't like that value == 2 instead of value = 2, in the second legend, obviously I don't like the period and the brackets around the value of a.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Monica
>>
>>
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