Re: [R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-26 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:39 +0200, Claudia Beleites wrote:
 On 10/22/2010 03:15 PM, DrCJones wrote:
snip /
 
 Being a chemist, it seemed natural to me to put the i after the concentration 
 brackets into a subscript - though you didn't say you want that.
 
 A more correct expression would be:
 
 group ([, Ca^'2+', ]) [i]~onsets

You don't need to quote the 2+, but if you don't quote it you have to
give R's parser something to work with on the RHS of +. phantom() is
useful in such cases:

plot(1:10, ylab = expression(group([, Ca^{2+phantom()}, ])[i]~onsets))

for example, produces similar output to your version. My preference is
to use fewer strings in these expressions, but then again my version
involves more typing. You pays your money... as they say.

G

 where you can easier see that the [ and ] are special left and right 
 delimiters. Note that the only term that needs to be hidden as character is 
 the charge, as R doesn't know this way of writing ion charges and supposes + 
 to 
 be an infix operator.
 
 
 Cheers,
 
 Claudia

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Re: [R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-26 Thread David Winsemius


On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote:


On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:39 +0200, Claudia Beleites wrote:

On 10/22/2010 03:15 PM, DrCJones wrote:

snip /


Being a chemist, it seemed natural to me to put the i after the  
concentration

brackets into a subscript - though you didn't say you want that.

A more correct expression would be:

group ([, Ca^'2+', ]) [i]~onsets


You don't need to quote the 2+, but if you don't quote it you have to
give R's parser something to work with on the RHS of +. phantom() is
useful in such cases:

plot(1:10, ylab = expression(group([, Ca^{2+phantom()}, ]) 
[i]~onsets))


for example, produces similar output to your version. My preference is
to use fewer strings in these expressions, but then again my version
involves more typing. You pays your money... as they say.


You could use doubled single quotes '' in the same position as that  
phantom(). Of course that mean means the net effect is just moving  
quotes around and probably not in the most intuitive manner.


--
David.


G

where you can easier see that the [ and ] are special left and  
right
delimiters. Note that the only term that needs to be hidden as  
character is
the charge, as R doesn't know this way of writing ion charges and  
supposes + to

be an infix operator.


Cheers,

Claudia


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[R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-22 Thread DrCJones

Hi,

How can I get the '2+' into superscript in the following title: 

'[Ca2+]i onsets' 

I tried the command below, but it doesn't work. What am I missing? 

hist(X, main=expression(([Ca*]i^2+) 'onsets'),  xlab = 'sec')




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Re: [R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-22 Thread David Winsemius


On Oct 22, 2010, at 7:01 AM, DrCJones wrote:


Hi,

How can I get the '2+' into superscript in the following title:

'[Ca2+]i onsets'

I tried the command below, but it doesn't work. What am I missing?


The first is an unambiguous description of what you want, but here are  
some guesses (since it was entirely confusing when above you put the  
i after the rt-square-bracket, and below put it before the 2+):


expression([*Ca*]*i^paste(2,+)~'onsets')
expression([*Ca*]^paste(2,+)*i~'onsets')

If one of those guesses is correct then what you were missing was an  
understanding of the differences between the plotmath syntax and  
regular printing. The characters[, ], and + are special so if  
you just want them treated as ordinarily characters, you need to  
surround them in quotes. If you want to put 2+ as superscript, the  
plotmath paste function (not to be confused with the ordinary R  
paste() ) will let you group sub-expressions. It would also be  
possible to use the group() expression-function. And the final missing  
piece is the knowledge that itmes in an expression are separated by  
*'s and ~'s rather than commas or spaces.


?plotmath  # which I think does an inadequate job of describing the  
features mentioned above.


If you need to insert values in expressions then:  ?bquote   or  ? 
substitute


Took me a couple of years to feel that I had a decent chance of  
getting an expression correct on even the second or third try.




hist(X, main=expression(([Ca*]i^2+) 'onsets'),  xlab = 'sec')




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Re: [R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-22 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi:

Try
X - rnorm(100)
hist(X, main = bquote('[Ca'^'2+'*']i'~'onsets'), xlab = 'sec')

or
hist(X, main = bquote('[Ca*]'*i^'2+' ~'onsets'), xlab = 'sec')

I'm not sure which one you want, though.

HTH,
Dennis

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:01 AM, DrCJones matthias.godd...@gmail.comwrote:


 Hi,

 How can I get the '2+' into superscript in the following title:

 '[Ca2+]i onsets'

 I tried the command below, but it doesn't work. What am I missing?

 hist(X, main=expression(([Ca*]i^2+) 'onsets'),  xlab = 'sec')




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Re: [R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-22 Thread DrCJones

Hi, 
Thanks for all of your replies! 

David, a slightly modified version of what you gave did the trick: 

hist(X,main = expression([*Ca**^paste(2,+)*]i~'onsets'))

But I prefer the way '2+' is italicized in the solution Dennis gave: 

hist(X, main = bquote('[Ca'^'2+'*']i'~'onsets'), xlab = 'sec')

I think I understand it now - the '^' symbol must be followed by the '*'
symbol to signify the end of font italicization; and '~' must be used to
signify spaces. The only thing I still don't get is why square brackets
rather than quotation marks surround the 'i' in the solution Claudia gave:  

hist(X, main=expression([ * Ca^2+ * ] [i]~'onsets'),  xlab = 'sec')


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Re: [R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-22 Thread David Winsemius


On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:15 AM, DrCJones wrote:



Hi,
Thanks for all of your replies!

David, a slightly modified version of what you gave did the trick:

hist(X,main = expression([*Ca**^paste(2,+)*]i~'onsets'))

But I prefer the way '2+' is italicized in the solution Dennis gave:


I agree. Dennis' version was more compact. And it worked if simply  
used as an argument to expression(), and it generalizes to  
substitution. Superior in every way.


hist(X, main = bquote('[Ca'^'2+'*']i'~'onsets'), xlab = 'sec')

I think I understand it now - the '^' symbol must be followed by the  
'*'

symbol to signify the end of font italicization;


Er, I don't see any italics in the output or implied by the expression.


and '~' must be used to
signify spaces. The only thing I still don't get is why square  
brackets
rather than quotation marks surround the 'i' in the solution Claudia  
gave:


hist(X, main=expression([ * Ca^2+ * ] [i]~'onsets'),  xlab =  
'sec')




Because the [] function in plotmath does subscripting. I guess she  
figured that was what you wanted.


You really need to study ?plotmath some more.



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Re: [R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-22 Thread Claudia Beleites

On 10/22/2010 03:15 PM, DrCJones wrote:


Hi, Thanks for all of your replies!

David, a slightly modified version of what you gave did the trick:

hist(X,main = expression([*Ca**^paste(2,+)*]i~'onsets'))

here you put the 2+ into the superscript of a superscript.

compare these four:
hist(X,main = expression(Ca**2~Ca^2~Ca**^2~Ca^^2))

** and ^ both mean power


But I prefer the way '2+' is italicized in the solution Dennis gave:

hist(X, main = bquote('[Ca'^'2+'*']i'~'onsets'), xlab = 'sec')

I think I understand it now - the '^' symbol must be followed by the '*'
symbol to signify the end of font italicization;

no, the ^ is the power function infix operator, as in x^2 = x².
* is multiplication, but the multiplication is written without dot:
x * y = x ⋅ y = xy

It is abused here to connect terms into one expression.

and '~' must be used to

signify spaces.

yes


The only thing I still don't get is why square brackets
rather than quotation marks surround the 'i' in the solution Claudia gave:

hist(X, main=expression([ * Ca^2+ * ] [i]~'onsets'),  xlab = 'sec')

the square bracket operator marks indices, which are written as subscript. So
x[i] produces what in LaTeX would be x_i

Being a chemist, it seemed natural to me to put the i after the concentration 
brackets into a subscript - though you didn't say you want that.


A more correct expression would be:

group ([, Ca^'2+', ]) [i]~onsets

where you can easier see that the [ and ] are special left and right 
delimiters. Note that the only term that needs to be hidden as character is 
the charge, as R doesn't know this way of writing ion charges and supposes + to 
be an infix operator.



Cheers,

Claudia



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Re: [R] superscript characters in title with '+'

2010-10-22 Thread DrCJones

Er, I don't see any italics in the output or implied by the expression. 

Freudian slip... 

...font superscripting is what I meant   

All is perfectly clear now. Thanks again!

 








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