How to only make one legend name italic in base R plot?
问题 I want to add a legend to a plot in which only one of the legend names is italicized . I'm using plot() in base R. However, I need that italicized line to contain variable numbers, so I use bquote . What I've tried does not work: a <- 2 ; b <- 5 plot(a,b) l1 <- bquote(Italic ~ .(a) + .(b)) l2 <- bquote(a + b) legend(x='topright',legend = bquote(italic(.(l1)))) legend(x='topleft',legend = c(bquote(italic(.(l1))),l2)) Notice that when I leave the expression on its own (RIGHT LEGEND), it