On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:26:44PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Rainer M Krug wrote: > >Hi > > > >I have a large table (longtable over 10 pages at least), exported from R > >as a .tex file. I would like to import the table into LyX 1.4.3 but the > >importer has problems as soon as the table gets to long - it puts all > >remaining columns rows into one field of the table. > > Sorry for the long post - but I figured it out directly after I posted it: > > The problem are empty cells, which are represented by "$$", which causes > confusion in LyX. > Now I don't know if this is a accepted format in LaTeX and if there is a > problem in LyX or if there is a problem in the export routine in R - if > anybody could shed some light on this?
$$ is begin of displayed math in TeX and understood by LyX as such. If an empty cell is exported as '$$' nowadays that's a recently introduced bug as I remember making sure that such beasts get exported as '$ $' a while ago. Andre'