> On Jan 11, 2016, at 7:59 AM, Evan Cooch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Suppose I've specified that the xlab for a plot is
>
> expression(bold(species~(italic(N1))))
>
> In other words, I want the axis label to be bold, italic 'species (N1)'
>
> Now, I want the title for the plot to be have this label embedded in the
> title.
>
> Say, 'This is the plot for Species (N1)'.
>
> For a variety of reasons, I've set this up so that the xlab is a global
> parameter (basically, because the labels are set in a function which
> when called, generates various plots):
>
> x_label <<- expression(bold(species~(italic(N1))))
>
> So, in the title, I've tried
>
> title(main=paste("This is the plot for ",x_label,"nullcline", sep=" "));
>
> but what this does is generate something like
>
> 'This is the plot for bold(species~(italic(N1)))'
>
> In other words, it pastes the text of the expression into the title, but
> not what the expression 'evaluates' to.
>
> Is there any way around this?
You instead need the `bquote` function. The `paste` function will only confuse
things. In this particular instance it is embedding the literal as.character
result of 'x_label'-value in a character object rather than in an
expression-object. Since you have not offered a full example it remains unclear
whether you want the words: "species" or "N1" rather than the values of those
names.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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