Dear R help:
I am trying to use paste(), within an ifelse() statement to insert latex
commands into an object that has been created using xtable(). I cannot
make the strings behave as I would like, the '\t' is creating a tab, the
usual method of '\\t' is not working either - nor is any series of
backslashes. The xtable object, I think, automatically alters the
strings. How can I insert the literal '\textbf' into my xtable object?
Any help would be appreciated. Code examples below.
Ryan
example 1:
> test= matrix(1:4, nrow=2,ncol=2)
> test = xtable(test)
> test[,1] = ifelse(test[,1]>1,paste('\textbf{',test[,1],'}'),test[,1])
> test
% latex table generated in R 2.5.1 by xtable 1.5-1 package
% Tue Sep 23 17:08:18 2008
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrr}
\hline
& 1 & 2 \\
\hline
1 & 1 & 3 \\
2 & extbf\{ 2 \} & 4 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
example 2:
> test= matrix(1:4, nrow=2,ncol=2)
> test = xtable(test)
> test[,1] = ifelse(test[,1]>1,paste('\\textbf{',test[,1],'}'),test[,1])
> test
% latex table generated in R 2.5.1 by xtable 1.5-1 package
% Tue Sep 23 17:11:56 2008
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrr}
\hline
& 1 & 2 \\
\hline
1 & 1 & 3 \\
2 & $\backslash$textbf\{ 2 \} & 4 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
--
Ryan D. Enos
Department of Political Science
UCLA
http://renos.bol.ucla.edu/
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