On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:28 PM Paul A. Rubin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Where can one find the specifications of the LyX file format for tables? > > > > The reason why I am asking that is because I have a bunch of tables > > that I want to export from R to a single LyX document, and the > > approach I am considering is to produce in R a text file in LyX format > > with all my tables inserted. > > > I'm not sure if there is explicit documentation of the syntax for tables > in LyX. You can create a small sample table with the desired format in > LyX, open the code pane (View > Code Preview Pane) and set the format > for the pane to LyX. That will show you what your sample table would > look like in a LyX source file. > > I wonder if there might not be an easier way, though. There are several > functions/packages in R that are designed for producing nice looking > tables (including xtable and the kable() function from knitr), and a > number of them have the option of generating LaTeX output. So you could > have your R script generate the desired tables with the desired format > and write them all to a LaTeX text file, then import that into LyX (File > > Import > LaTeX (plain), and copy/paste them where they are needed in > your actual document.
Thanks, Paul. I imagined your "View > Code Preview Pane" idea, but I though it would be easier to read the documentation, if there is some. (The file format of tables in LyX does not appear to be simple.) Regarding your other idea -- using xtable() or ktable -- I guess it is not very practical in my case, as I have too many table (about 50 tables), and therefore I would like to insert all of them in their right place in the LyX document, to avoid the work of copying and pasting 50 times! Paul
