Hi Marc, Steve, and Nicolas,
Thanks for your replies. This is working now. Looks like the information was
readily available online. Probably is in my books too. Likely missed it due to
time pressure.
Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Paul
--- On Mon, 8/20/12, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote:
> From: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] A LaTeX question -- Hope people won't mind
> To: "Paul Miller" <pjmiller...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Received: Monday, August 20, 2012, 3:27 PM
> On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Paul
> Miller <pjmiller...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Hope people won't mind my posting a LaTeX question
> here. I know a lot of people who use R are also using LaTeX.
> I'm in a bit of a rush to complete a document and am having
> trouble with one aspect of the formatting.
> >
> > I'm creating a list of tables using:
> >
> > \listoftables
> >
> > I also have some table captions that contain the number
> of patients in an anlysis like:
> >
> > \caption{Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring
> Data (N = 700)}
> >
> > The tables look great. Trouble is that LaTeX inserts
> the "(N = 700)" into the text in the List of Tables at the
> beginning of the document. I'd prefer that it not do so.
> >
> > Is there some simple way to fix this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul
>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> See this page:
>
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions#Lists_of_figures_and_tables
>
> The \caption command has primarily two arguments:
>
> \caption[short text]{long text}
>
> Note that the first part, within the square brackets, will
> be the text included in the list of tables.
>
> So in your example above:
>
> \caption[Results for Random Forest Model Using
> Scoring Data]
> {Results for Random
> Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>
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