ok, here's a self-contained example. topleft legend will plot 1 example of exactly what i want, but only 1 line. bottomleft legend will plot what i had hoped would work... as it's the logical extension of the topleft example to two cases.
dev.new() plot.new() plot.window(xlim = c(0, 1), ylim = c(0, 1)) legend("topleft", legend = bquote(paste("foo bar ", R^2 == .(2^2))), fill = "red") legend("bottomleft", legend = c(bquote(paste("foo bar ", R^2 == . (2^2))), bquote(paste("bar foo ", R^2 == .(3^2)))), fill = c("red", "blue")) note that you cannot simply add the prefix string as is to bquote (as suggested), as bquote expects an R expression. On Jul 10, 11:22 pm, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Jul 10, 2010, at 10:45 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jul 10, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Murat Tasan wrote: > > >> hi, i'm trying to prepend some plain (i.e. unevalutated) text to a > >> typographically evaluated R expression in a legend(...) call. > > >> here's a working legend(...) call that is close to what i'd like > >> (where x and y are returned from an lm(...) call): > > >> legend("topleft", legend = c(bquote(R^2 == .(summary(x)$r.squared)), > >> bquote(R^2 == .(summary(y)$r.squared))), fill = c("blue", "red")) > > >> this evaluates the R^2 values for my x and y objects, then displays > >> them in the plot legend with colored boxes adjacent to them. > > >> now the hard part (for me, at least :-/), i'd like to add some text > >> (e.g. "data set 1" and "data set 2") to each line of the legend, > >> right > >> before the typographically-displayed R^2 == some_value text. > > > Would be nice (and would follow the guidance of the Posting Guide if > > you were to offer a method for construction something like "x" and > > "y" as well as stating explicitly what plotting function you were > > using. My guess (untested) is that you can get what you want by > > simply sticking in those strings (unquoted) into your "working" > > bquote argument. > > > legend("topleft", legend = c(bquote(data set 1 R^2 == .(summary(x) > > $r.squared)), > > bquote(data set 2 R^2 == .(summary(y)$r.squared))), fill = c("blue", > > "red")) > > Nah. didn't work with an example constructed from the lm and summary > page examples. > > e1 <- as.expression(paste("data set 1 R^2 == ", > summary(lm.D90)$r.squared)) > e2 <- as.expression(paste("data set 2 R^2 == ", > summary(lm.D90)$r.squared )) > plot(1,1) > legend("topleft", legend = c( e1,e2 ), fill = c("blue", "red")) > > This was mostly successful, although it did not get the ^2 interpreted > as a superscript. You may want to wrap an sprintf or a format call > around that r.squared. > > > > > > > > > -- > > David. > > >> basically, a legend that looks like so (with the expression part > >> evaluated and typed out correctly): > >> data set 1 R^2 == some_value > >> data set 2 R^2 == some_other_value > > >> i've tried a seemingly countless number of paste/substitute/ > >> expression > >> combinations, but cannot seem to get what i'd like. > >> anyone know of a nice call to create these two strings to display on > >> my plot? > > >> thanks for any help! > > >> -murat > > >> ______________________________________________ > >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing list > >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > David Winsemius, MD > > West Hartford, CT > > > ______________________________________________ > > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list > >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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.