Greg was referring to what to write in R character literals in order to generate a single \ in the output from R which in turn would be fed into latex or Sweave and then latex. Google this: special characters in latex
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:23 PM, erwann rogard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, but unfortunately > > \begin{lstlisting} > \\$ > \end{lstlisting} > and > > \begin{lstlisting} > \\\\$ > \end{lstlisting} > > still generate the same error. > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Greg Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The $ is special in TeX/LaTeX as a shortcut for beginning/ending inline >> math mode, so if you want an actual $ then you need to escape it so that the >> TeX/LaTeX file has \$ in it. This means that in your R code that generates >> the file you may need \\$ or in some cases \\\\$. >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> -- >> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. >> Statistical Data Center >> Intermountain Healthcare >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 801.408.8111 >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > project.org] On Behalf Of erwann rogard >> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:18 PM >> > To: r-help@r-project.org >> > Subject: [R] R-code in Latex --- $ sign causes error >> > >> > hi, >> > >> > here's what i have: >> > >> > \lstset{ >> > basicstyle=\ttfamily, >> > keywordstyle=\bfseries, >> > showstringspaces=false, >> > columns = fullflexible, >> > mathescape = true, >> > language=R >> > } >> > >> > \begin{lstlisting} >> > lst$val<-val >> > \end{lstlisting} >> > >> > ./software.tex:16:Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. lst$ >> > >> > the culprit here is the $ sign. >> > >> > thanks. >> > >> > ps: >> > >> > i'm posting here rather than Latex is bec i guess an R user is more >> > likely 2 >> > to have encountered this before, but if not ok, pls let me know. >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.