Both of these work on my system: set.seed(6) x <- rnorm(30, 100, 20) xs <- seq(50, 150, length=150) cdf <- pnorm(xs, 100, 20)
plot(xs, cdf, type='l', ylim=c(0,1), xlab=expression(x), ylab=expression(paste("Prob[", X <= x, "]"))) # FH lines(ecdf(x), cex=.5) plot(xs, cdf, type='l', ylim=c(0,1), xlab=expression(x), ylab=expression("Prob[X" <= "x]")) # PE lines(ecdf(x), cex = 0.5) > sessionInfo() R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-07-21 r56468) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets grid methods [8] base other attached packages: [1] directlabels_1.3 sos_1.3-1 brew_1.0-6 lattice_0.19-30 [5] ggplot2_0.8.9 proto_0.3-9.2 reshape_0.8.4 plyr_1.5.2 Dennis On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Frank Harrell <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Under > > platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > arch x86_64 > os linux-gnu > system x86_64, linux-gnu > status > major 2 > minor 13.1 > year 2011 > month 07 > day 08 > svn rev 56322 > language R > version.string R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) > > I get a double quote mark in place of <= in the y-axis label when I run the > following. > > set.seed(6) > x <- rnorm(30, 100, 20) > xs <- seq(50, 150, length=150) > cdf <- pnorm(xs, 100, 20) > plot(xs, cdf, type='l', ylim=c(0,1), > xlab=expression(x), > ylab=expression(paste("Prob[", X <= x, "]"))) > lines(ecdf(x), cex=.5) > > The problem also occurs if I use instead ylab=expression(prob(X <= x))) > > All is well if I remove "=" but I need <=. > > Frank > > ----- > Frank Harrell > Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Error-in-plotmath-tp3708153p3708153.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.