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I know I can print to console strings that have unicode symbols in them by escaping them, however, I was wondering if there is a way of using expression and paste like in a plot's title (essentially displaying mathematical expressions using {plotmath}, but to save it in a vector of characters, so that when I display the said vector in console, it looks like LaTeX. Any advice? Is it even possible?

Thanks.

Ofni Chadesch
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  • I am still learning, if the question does not make any sense in R, please don't be too harsh. – Ofni Chadesch Apr 25 '15 at 21:01
  • I cannot understand what is requested. Please post example input and output. – IRTFM Apr 26 '15 at 02:53
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    Is this what you're looking for: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395105/getting-latex-into-r-plots ? – seaotternerd Apr 26 '15 at 04:51
  • @seaotternerd That post is discussing the common problem of displaying LaTeX-like text in plot's titles and axis labels. This is easily solved with {plotmath} by doing some fancy footwork with `expression`, `paste` and `substitute`. My problem is trying to replicate the same kind of behaviour in an ordinary string (that I can then display on a console), instead of a plot. @BondedDust It is kind of difficult to post an example short of making a picture. What I basically want, is to have the same level of text sophistication (LaTeX) that I normally have in a label on a plot, on console display. – Ofni Chadesch May 15 '15 at 02:58
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    Looks like it should be possible if you have a unicode compliant console. I don't know of a neat pre-existing way to do it from R (although one may well exist), but this might be a good starting point: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96591/is-it-possible-to-show-mathematical-symbols-in-the-terminal – seaotternerd May 15 '15 at 18:39

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