如何将名称列表设为斜体并在 R 中绘制它们？

Question

I can italicize a phrase when plotting text like this: text(1, 2, substitute(paste(italic('Gorilla gorilla gorilla')) , however, I want to send a whole list of names to text but of course the following won't work text(x-coordinates, y-coordinates, substitute(paste(italic('list')) , as it will just plot "list" repeatedly. Is there a work around?

I have tried to italicize text in the list first and make use of loops.

Answer 1

We can use bquote here instead of substitute ; in addition to some other differences (I do not know them all), bquote supports .(somevar) replacement.

L <- "hello world"
plot(1)
text(1, 1.1, bquote(.(L) * "    " * italic(.(L))))