Saturday, 24 August 2013

Strings & Expressions in Plot Titles, Labels etc

Strings & Expressions in Plot Titles, Labels etc

I am trying to paste together user a user provided string and a fixed
string in a plot title.
A simple case that works, of course:
userTitle <- "user title" # Example 1
fullTitle <- paste(userTitle, ": Results", sep = "")
plot(1:10, main = fullTitle)
But what if the user's title contains an expression? Here's some things
I've tried:
# This works, but doesn't include the fixed string # Example 2
fullTitle <- bquote(.(userTitle))
plot(1:10, main = fullTitle)
Try to add the fixed string. Some things that don't quite work:
fullTitle <- bquote(.(userTitle)~':'~Results) # Example 3
plot(1:10, main = fullTitle) # title missing .(userTitle)
fullTitle <- bquote(paste("Results:", .(userTitle))) # Example 4
plot(1:10, main = fullTitle) # title missing .(userTitle)
But this example, from here works just fine.
x<- 232323
plot(1:10, main = bquote(paste(ARL[1], " curve for ", S^2, "; x=",.(x))))
My Example 4 looks pretty much exactly this last one, but doesn't behave
the same. There are so many combos of bquote, expression, substitute and
I've looked at a lot of answers, but I am likely missing something really
small. Any advice on how to get the user string and fixed string together
if the user string contains an expression in this case? Thanks.

No comments:

Post a Comment