On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What have you tried this far and what part does not work? If you > forget for a moment the fact that you want to have ">=1", ">=2", ... > can you do what you want with plain "1", "2", ...? Telling us that > helps us help you. > > Are you asking for the labels on the *tick marks* on the axis? Right > now it sounds like you are asking for *the label* on the x axis, but > the part that you want multiple ones is confusing. > > plot(1:10, xlab="1"); > > is different from: > > plot(1:10, axes=FALSE); > axis(side=1, at=1:10, labels=1:10); > > To add ">=" to the latter case, this works: > > bquote("" >= 1:10) > labels <- lapply(1:10, FUN=function(x) substitute(>= t, list(t=x))); > plot(1:10, axes=FALSE); > axis(side=1, at=1:10, labels=labels);
Oops. Forget about the bquote() - cut'n'paste error ...and I don't know how to get rid of the "" preceding each tick label. Maybe someone else knows. /Henrik > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Li, Bingshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> Yes, you are right. I meant "greater-than-or-equal". According to your >> suggestion, I can plot the symbol only. But what I want is to have >=1, >=2 >> and so on as labels on xaxis. I did not make it work. Do you know how to >> make it? The expression("">=1"") did not work, and paste(expression("">=""), >> 1) >> did not work either. >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> Bingshan >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Sun 9/21/2008 8:38 AM >> To: Li, Bingshan >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: RE: [R] How to plot "greater than" symbol on the x-axis >> >> Dear Bingshan, >> >> It isn't entirely clear what you want to do. I think that you want the >> "greater-than-or-equal-to" symbol, not "greater than," but by itself or in >> an expression? For the first, xlab=expression("" >= ""), and for the second, >> e.g., xlab=expression(x >= x[min]). More generally, see ?plotmath. >> >> I hope this helps, >> John >> >> ------------------------------ >> John Fox, Professor >> Department of Sociology >> McMaster University >> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada >> web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On >>> Behalf Of Li, Bingshan >>> Sent: September-21-08 12:37 AM >>> To: r-help@r-project.org >>> Subject: [R] How to plot "greater than" symbol on the x-axis >>> >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I want to plot a "greater than" symbol (the "_" under ">") on the x-axis >> in >>> the labels. Is it possible to do it? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Bingshan >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.