Thanks Bert, that is exactly what I wanted. I think that you meant plot(z,y...
in the last line?
Nick
> On 06 June 2019 at 17:13 Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ... and if you wanted too streamline the process, something like the
> following could be encapsulated in a function:
>
> fun <- quote(exp(x))
> z <- 1:9
> y <- eval(fun,list(x = z) )
> plot(x, y, main = paste("Plot of y =", deparse(fun)))
>
> Further details can be found in the "Computing on the Language" section
> of the "R Language Reference" manual or from suitable tutorials on the web.
>
> Bert Gunter
>
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> and sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 8:55 AM Nick Wray via R-help <
> r-help@r-project.org mailto:r-help@r-project.org > wrote:
>
> > > Thanks but that's not quite what I meant
> > I am trying out different functions and they don't necessarily vary
> > in a regular way (like say all being powers of x where it'd be simple to
> > just have a vector for the powers you want)
> > So I might have
> > y<-x^2
> > y<-cos(x)
> > y<-exp(x+1)
> > What I am after is a way of running these functions and then
> > calling each one into the labelling for the appropriate graph as I plot it.
> > So then I would have something like
> > mainlab<-paste("Plot of ",function in question)
> > ...? Thanks Nick
> >
> > > On 06 June 2019 at 16:40 Marc Schwartz < marc_schwa...@me.com
> > mailto:marc_schwa...@me.com > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Jun 6, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Nick Wray via R-help <
> > r-help@r-project.org mailto:r-help@r-project.org > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way of taking a line of r code (eg y<-x^2) and
> > pasting that line of code, as is, into a label, so that for example I could
> > then have a plot label "Plot of y<-x^2"?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Nick Wray
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > See ?plotmath
> > >
> > > An example:
> > >
> > > x <- 1:10
> > > y <- x^2
> > >
> > > plot(x, y, main = expression(paste("Plot of ", y %<-% x^2)))
> > >
> > >
> > > There are other incantations and examples on the help page above.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Marc Schwartz
> > >
> >
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