Thanks for your reply Erik! You are right, it does not seem to matter. When the R string contains two \\, xtable prints it as only one \. I should have looked into the Latex output before posting!
Thanks again, and sorry for posting too quick! Jannis --- Erik Iverson <er...@ccbr.umn.edu> schrieb am Do, 15.7.2010: > Von: Erik Iverson <er...@ccbr.umn.edu> > Betreff: Re: [R] Backslash \ in string > An: "Jannis" <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> > CC: r-help@r-project.org > Datum: Donnerstag, 15. Juli, 2010 13:09 Uhr > On 07/15/2010 08:02 AM, Jannis > wrote: > > Dear R community, > > > > > > is there any way to include a backslash in a charakter > string without meaning some escape sequence? > > > > E.g. i need a string like: > > > > a<- '\hline' > > Error: '\h' is an unrecognized escape in character > string starting "\h" > > > > to include some latex code in a xtable object, but I > only mange to do: > > > > a<- '\\hline' > > > > which is not what I want. > > > Why don't you want that? I use something like that > every day with LaTeX and it > works fine, so I'm not sure what you mean. I don't > use xtable though, so I > can't speak to that. But can you explain what happens > in the resulting .tex > file when you use '\\'. Escaping each backslash you > want in your .tex file with > another should be the way to go, e.g., the table end of > line would be written > "\\\\" in R. > > > > > In detail I would like to add the following line of > code to the first row of an xtable object with the > add.to.row argument: > > > > > > & \multicolumn{4}{c}{A} > \multicolumn{4}{c}{B} \\ > > > > for which I have to convert it into a character > sting. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.