{"id":410,"date":"2014-01-01T22:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.uc.edu\/~yaozo\/wordpress\/?p=410"},"modified":"2014-01-01T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T03:13:10","slug":"combining-superscripts-subscripts-and-other-symbols-in-axis-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/2014\/01\/01\/combining-superscripts-subscripts-and-other-symbols-in-axis-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Combining superscripts, subscripts and other symbols in axis labels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here was a tricky questions just sent to me:<\/p>\n

I’m trying to get \u00a0\u03b444\/42Ca915a (\u2030) to look like\u00a0\u03b444\/42<\/sup>Ca915a<\/sub>\u00a0(\u2030). I only need at this time to do the ylab. I tried using the code below from the blog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nI have tried plotting it in<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

boxplot(Ensisheim, ylim=c(-1.0,-0.4), col=”red”, ylab=expression(paste(delta^{<\/wbr>44\/42}, “Ca (\\u2030)”))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and as just<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0plot(x, y, ylab=expression(paste(delta^{<\/wbr>44\/42},\u00a0“Ca (\u2030)”))).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Solution<\/h4>\n

It took a bit of trial and error, but I was able to work a solution thanks to posts at stackoverflow (here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

x\u00a0<- seq(1:10)<\/div>\n
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par(mar=c(5,6,5,5))<\/div>\n
boxplot(x,\u00a0ylab=expression(paste(delta^”44\/42″,\u00a0“Ca”\u00a0[“915a”],\u00a0” (\u2030)”)))<\/div>\n
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Remember you can substitute\u00a0\\u2030\u00a0for\u00a0\u2030.<\/div>\n
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\nWhat’s happening?<\/h4>\n
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expression(paste(delta^”44\/42″,\u00a0“Ca”\u00a0[“915a”],\u00a0” (\u2030)”))<\/div>\n
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The superscript command\u00a0^\u00a0and subscript command\u00a0[]\u00a0don’t have to be followed by a comma, but if you want to call them as commands, rather the print them as characters, you have to take them out of the quotation marks, so we have\u00a0“Ca”\u00a0[“915a”]rather than\u00a0“Ca[915a]”.\u00a0If you want to join up multiple superscript\/subscript\/special character commands within the\u00a0expression(paste())\u00a0environment, after your superscript command is over, you need a comma before you can ask it to print\u00a0“Ca”, and similarly after your subscript command is over you need a comma before you can ask \u00a0it to print \u00a0” (\u2030)”.<\/div>\n

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A special note on margins<\/h4>\n

You noticed the code \u00a0par(mar=c(5,6,5,5))I called above before I plotted my figure. This asks R to make the lefthand margin larger than the others. When using superscripts on the y-axis, I’ve found the top edge of the superscript character can sometimes \u00a0get cut off when you save the pdf from R. Just in case, make extra room in the margins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here was a tricky questions just sent to me: I’m trying to get \u00a0\u03b444\/42Ca915a (\u2030) to look like\u00a0\u03b444\/42Ca915a\u00a0(\u2030). I only need at this time to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhuoyao.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}