Re: axis label with a symbol in superscript mode

[Dennis Murphy]

Hi:

Try

ggplot(data.frame(x = 1, y = 1), aes(x, y)) + geom_point() +
ylab(expression(T[2]^"*"*group("(", s, ")")))

Dennis

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 1:09 PM, <ume...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> I am trying to get the following y-axis label in my ggplot
> Tsubscript(2)superscript(*) (s) i.e., in Tex, it would be T$_{2}^{*}$ (s).
>
> I tried to get there with the following ggplot command
> ...+ylab(expression(paste(T[2]{*},"(s)",sep="")))
>
> However, this does not work. Specifically, if I replace * with simple text
> (letters and numerals), it works fine. Can somebody suggest what needs to be
> changed to get the expected y-axis label?
>
> Regards,
> Umesh
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[ume...@gmail.com]

Hi Dennis,
That gives exactly what I want. Thanks a lot. I would not have come up with it in a month for sure :-).

Regards,
Umesh