[R] easiest way to put italics words in sentences plotted with text()?

Hi, I am plotting some labels that consist of strings in which some words (but only some) should be in italics. E.g. M3: Homo, 5 areas, 2 areas max M4: Pan, 3 areas, 2 areas max I am putting these on the plot with the text() command. The words Homo and Pan should be italicized, since

Re: [R] easiest way to put italics words in sentences plotted with text()?

Hi, May be this gets you started: plot(1,1,xlim=0:1,ylim=0:1) text(0.6,0.8, expression(M3:~italic(Homo)~paste(,, 5 areas, 2 areas max,sep=)))  text(0.6,0.4, expression(M4:~italic(Pan)~paste(,, 3 areas, 2 areas max,sep=))) A.K. - Original Message - From: Nick Matzke

Re: [R] easiest way to put italics words in sentences plotted with text()?

On Aug 9, 2013, at 7:22 PM, arun wrote: Hi, May be this gets you started: plot(1,1,xlim=0:1,ylim=0:1) text(0.6,0.8, expression(M3:~italic(Homo)~paste(,, 5 areas, 2 areas max,sep=))) text(0.6,0.4, expression(M4:~italic(Pan)~paste(,, 3 areas, 2 areas max,sep=))) The plotmath