Adding mathematical notations to R plots
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I have to admit that I find the Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
plotmath expressions in R a little fiddly to annotate plots with mathematical notation. Apparently I am not the only one, but Stefano Meschiari did actually something about it. A few days ago his package
latex2exp appeared on CRAN. The package provides the wonderful function
latex2exp that translates LaTeX code into plotmath expressions. Brillant! All I have to remember is to escape the "" character, that is write "\" instead of "".Below is the first example from the
plotmath help file and again using latex2exp. I think this is much easier to read and write.
You find more information about
latex2exp on Stefano’s web site and his GitHub repository.Session Info
R version 3.2.1 (2015-06-18) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) Running under: OS X 10.10.4 (Yosemite) locale: [1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] latex2exp_0.3.1 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] magrittr_1.5 tools_3.2.1 Rcpp_0.11.6 stringi_0.5-5 stringr_1.0.0
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