I'm no expert at this but it seems like ?plotmath is saying to do
something like:
text(2,0.35,bquote(sigma==.(mySigma),list('mySigma'=round(sd(Data),digits=3))))
Scott
Scott Sherrill-Mix
Department of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania
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3610 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6076
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Jonathan R.
Blaufuss<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to annotate a density plot and I would like to have R calculate the
> standard deviation and place it in the plot next to the standard deviation
> symbol
> "sigma". I can successfully use the text command to paste "StDev
> =",round(sd(Data),digits=3))
> on the plot. However, I have trouble when I want to replace "StDev" with the
> Greek
> symbol sigma (See code below).
>
> set.seed(1)
> Data=rnorm(100)
> plot(density(Data))
> text(2,0.35,paste("StDev =",round(sd(Data),digits=3)))
>
> Through searching the help files I figured out that I can paste the sigma
> symbol on the
> plot using the command "expression".
>
> text(2,0.3,expression(paste(sigma," = 0.898")))
>
> However, when I try to paste together the sigma symbol and the standard
> deviation
> that R is calculating, the text of the command to calculate the standard
> deviation
> shows up on the plot instead of the number which I am asking it to calculate.
>
> text(2.2,0.25,expression(paste(sigma," = ",round(sd(Data),digits=3))))
>
> Can someone please point me to a resource that will help me figure this out?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Jonathan
>
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