On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Brian Quinif wrote: > I have found out that the way to have a break apart a long caption in > the way that one desires is to have a short caption for use in the > list of tables that is not broken with \\ > > I can manually adjust the LaTeX output from the Hmisc function latex() > to get the tables how I want them. However, I would like to automate > the creation of these tables. > > Inside the latex() function, I tried this: > caption='Estimated HOPE Effects on \\ Typical First-Year Students, 1990/1995 > \\ > (Robust Std. Errors in Parentheses)', > caption.lot='HOPE Effects on Typical First-Year Students' > > The resulting latex output however, turns the "\\" into "\", which > will not create the line breaks that I want. > > How can I remedy this?
You inserted \ not \\ ! (Remember that R character strings use C-style escapes: see e.g. ?Quotes.) Use "\\\\" to insert \\ -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
