On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I asked something like this earlier but decided that a proper minimal
> example might be helpfull ;0)
>
> Why does this work with regards to the expression (substitution):
>
> require(stats)
> plot(cars)
> text(5,120,labels=substitute(i^{z+phantom()}*"("*a*"
> AMU)",list(i="yx",z=2,a=0)))
> text(c(5,5),c(115,110),labels=c("One","Two"))
>
> But adding this (using a vector of expressions/substitutions) fails to print
> the expression correctly:
>
> text(c(5,5),c(105,100),labels=c(substitute(i^{z+phantom()}*"("*a*"
> AMU)",list(i="yx",z=2,a=0)),"Three"))
>
> This is a bug, no?
Yes, but not where you appear to think it is.
'labels' is not an expression: check it by typeof(). Using expression() in
place of c() will give what I think you intended.
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