[R] R-Latex question

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Mar 11 18:51:41 CET 2008


threshold wrote:
> Hi, maybe my question is not typical. I want to make R table-kind output to
> be readable immediately in Latex but I am struggling with symbol '\' needed
> for instance in '\hline'. For example when 'Table' is a matrix class object:
>
> cat("&",Table[1,1], "&",Table[1,2], "\n");flush.console() 
> cat("\hline \n");flush.console()
> cat("&",Table[2,1], "&",Table[2,2], "\n");flush.console() 
>
> etc, to have specific output which I can paste (or save) in latex readible
> format.
>
> but '\' was not accepted by R. Is there any way to over come this obstacle
> or maybe other way to 'implement' R table output into latex format
>
> thank you in advance
> rob 
>   
Double the backslashes and/or have a look at the "xtable" package.

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