On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Pfaff, Bernhard Dr. wrote:
> Dear R-Devel subscriber,
>
> I encountered the following problem for tex-formatted table with
> xtable(). Suppose I do want the following matrix as a table in LaTeX:
>
> library(xtable)
> a11 <- "\\color{green}\\textbf{big green}"
> a21 <- "\\color{red}\\textbf{big red}"
> a12 <- "\\color{green}green"
> a22 <- "\\color{red}red"
> A <- matrix(c(a11, a21, a12, a22), nrow = 2, ncol = 2)
> colnames(A) <- c("big", "normal")
> rownames(A) <- c("green", "red")
> A
> xtable(A, vsep=c('@{\\hspace{0.1cm}}', rep('@{\\hspace{0.4cm}}', 6),
> '@{\\hspace{0.1cm}}'))
>
> I do get the following output:
>
> % latex table generated in R 2.5.0 by xtable 1.4-3 package
> % Fri Apr 27 13:19:43 2007
> \begin{table}[ht]
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{rll}
> \hline
> & big & normal \\
> \hline
> green & $\backslash$color\{green\}$\backslash$textbf\{big green\} &
> $\backslash$color\{green\}green \\
> red & $\backslash$color\{red\}$\backslash$textbf\{big red\} &
> $\backslash$color\{red\}red \\
> \hline
> \end{tabular}
> \end{center}
> \end{table}
>
>
> Please, note that the curly braces are prefixed with a backslash and the
> double backslashes are interpreted as math backslashes. The above code
> snippet worked fine in R 2.4.1 and I reckon that this behaviour might be
> due to:
>
> o There is a warning if \ is used unnecessarily in a string when
> being parsed, e.g. "\." where probably "\\." was intended.
> ("\." is valid, but the same as ".".) Thanks to Bill Dunlap
> for the suggestion.
How can a warning that you are not showing (and I don't see when running
your code) have anything to do with this? That change is just to add a
warning: there is no change in the parsed code.
I get the same behaviour in 2.4.1 with xtable 1.4-3. Have you
perhaps updated 'xtable' as well as R and are blaming R for an 'xtable'
change? As ?print.xtable says
From version 1.4-3, all non-numeric columns are sanitized, and all
LaTeX special characters are sanitised for LaTeX output. See the
vignette for an example of customising the sanitization.
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