rggplot2mathematical-typesetting

Putting mathematical symbols and subscripts mixed with regular letters


I want to plot a label that looks like this in ggplot2:

Value is $\sigma$, R^{2} = 0.6 where Value is is ordinary font, $\sigma$ is a Greek lowercase sigma letter and R^{2} = 0.6 appears as an R with a superscript 2 followed by equal sign (=) followed by 0.6. How can this be used in ggplot factors and in arguments to things like xlab,ylab of R?


Solution

  • Something like this :

    g <- ggplot(data=data.frame(x=0,y=0))+geom_point(aes(x=x,y=y))
    g+ xlab( expression(paste("Value is ", sigma,",", R^{2},'=0.6')))
    

    EDIT

    Another option is to use annotate with parse=T:

    g+ annotate('text', x = 0, y = 0, 
            label = "Value~is~sigma~R^{2}==0.6 ",parse = TRUE,size=20) 
    

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    EDIT

    The paste solution may be useful if the constant 0.6 is computed during plotting.

    r2.value <- 0.90
    g+ xlab( expression(paste("Value is ", sigma,",", R^{2},'=',r2.value)))