I just found that out thanks to Frank Harrell. Thanks, though. 2006/4/12, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 >
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