My message much earlier in the thread was
> I think that bquote, with its .() operator, suffices for [almost?] any
single title;
> don't bother fiddling with expression(), substitute(), or parse(). (You
can make
> those work in many situations, but if you stick with just bquote then you
can
> spend your time on the title itself.)
I still think that is a good suggestion. While you are learning this stuff,
don't
even consider solutions that are not of the form
main=bquote(...)
That leaves you with two of your nine attempts
> #chart 6:
> hist(x,main=bquote(paste("6. ",expression(bar(x))," = ",.(meanx))))
> #chart 8:
> hist(x,main=bquote("Heart Attack (" * bar(X)==.(meanx) *")"))
I would ignore #6 as well because it has a call to expression() inside
the call to bquote.
What do you want to change about #8?
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On
> Behalf
> Of mee1d3hs
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 5:21 AM
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] characters, mathematical expressions and computed values
>
> I still can't get this to work, I am just trying to learn and this is
> supposed to be a feature of R, the ability to combine math notation in
> charts and exhibits
>
> I did some more work to try to show what I am trying it to and what is not
> working
>
> x <- rnorm(1000,mean=10,sd=2)
>
> par(mfcol=c(3,3))
> meanx <- round(mean(x),digits=2)
>
> x <- rnorm(1000,mean=10,sd=2)
>
> par(mfcol=c(4,2))
> meanx <- round(mean(x),digits=2)
>
> #chart 1:
> hist(x,main=paste(" 1. Mean of X =",bquote(.(meanx))))
> #chart 2:
> hist(x,main=paste(" 2. Mean of X = ",substitute(meanx,list(meanx=meanx))))
> #chart 3:
> hist(x,main=expression("3. "*bar(x)*" = "))
> #chart 4:
> hist(x,main=expression(paste("4. ",bar(x)," = ",bquote(.(meanx)))))
> #chart 5:
> hist(x,main=expression(paste("5. ",bar(x)," =
> ",substitute(meanx,list(meanx=meanx)))))
> #chart 6:
> hist(x,main=bquote(paste("6. ",expression(bar(x))," = ",.(meanx))))
> #chart 7:
> hist(x,main=paste("7. ",expression(bar(x))," =
> ",substitute(meanx,list(meanx=meanx))))
> #chart 8:
> hist(x,main=bquote("Heart Attack (" * bar(X)==.(meanx) *")"))
>
>
>
> what i want to do is to show a title that says X Bar = mean, where Bar X is
> the mathematical notation for the mean X with a bar on top and mean is the
> mean value
>
> the first 2 charts on top work using bquote() or substitute(), but they
> write the word 'mean' instead of X bar. The third one shows the X Bar with
> no value (it was a first attempt and I never included the value)
>
> charts 4 and 5 and 6 attempt to incorporate either bquote() or substitute
> into #3 to make it work, in both cases it seems the bquote or the substitute
> is not properly being evaluated. In 6 and 7 specifically I put the
> expression inside the bquote or paste to see if reversing would work,
> finally 8 is the one suggested with slight modifications to replace round
> and mean for the variable with that result. (the output I get is attached)
>
> I am hoping that someone can help me understand what I am doing wrong, and I
> guess how the nested functions are being evaluated. I am learning to use R,
> and while I may really never need to use math notation (in fact in my work I
> may confuse people more with X bar than using mean), I believe there is
> value to learning how to use the functions, I can see how they would be
> useful for writing code.functions that write code so one can dynamically
> solve problems. I have done that in SAS and I may do it in R
>
> I appreciate anyones help. Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to show my
> process to solve and learn what is going on
>
> Mario
>
>
> sample.png <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4650645/sample.png>
>
>
>
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