Thanks for clarifying. Yes, \$ works in latex, but not *within* the
lstlisting environment.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> >> >
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