How to use subscripts in ggplot2 legends [R]

Question

Can I use subscripts in ggplot2 legends? I see this question on greek letters in legends and elsewhere, but I can\'t figure out how to adapt it.

I thought that using

Answer 1

If you want to incorporate Greek symbols etc. into the major tick labels, use an unevaluated expression.

For a bar graph, i did the following:

library(ggplot2)
data <- data.frame(names=tolower(LETTERS[1:4]),mean_p=runif(4))

p <- ggplot(data,aes(x=names,y=mean_p))
p <- p + geom_bar(colour="black",fill="white")
p <- p + xlab("expressions") + scale_y_continuous(expression(paste("Wacky Data")))
p <- p + scale_x_discrete(labels=c(a=expression(paste(Delta^2)),
                               b=expression(paste(q^n)),
                               c=expression(log(z)),
                               d=expression(paste(omega / (x + 13)^2))))
p