Ok. Sorry, here's a reproducible example: library(xtable) x<-as.table(cbind(1:3,rep("this is an example for a long character string that I want break into several lines"))) xtable(x)
Regards Erich -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 19. September 2008 15:50 An: Erich Studerus Cc: r-help@r-project.org Betreff: Re: [R] getting line breaks with xtable Read the last line to every message to r-help to find out one reason you may be getting no responses. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Erich Studerus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, for asking the same question again, but I got no reactions the last > time. Maybe it was just overseen by the experts. > I'm using the xtable function with Sweave and Lyx and I would like to know > how to get automatic line breaks for long strings in a column of the table. > I've learned from the Lyx wiki that the Latex command \linebreak produces > table cells with multiple lines. I tried to insert \linebreak into the > character string, but it didn't work out, because Sweave transforms it > automatically to $\backslash$linebreak. > > Any help is highly appreciated. > > Erich > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.