[R] long captions -- new issue

[Brian Quinif]

I just found that out thanks to Frank Harrell.  Thanks, though.

2006/4/12, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Brian Quinif wrote:
>
> > I have found out that the way to have a break apart a long caption in
> > the way that one desires is to have a short caption for use in the
> > list of tables that is not broken with \\
> >
> > I can manually adjust the LaTeX output from the Hmisc function latex()
> > to get the tables how I want them.  However, I would like to automate
> > the creation of these tables.
> >
> > Inside the latex() function, I tried this:
> > caption='Estimated HOPE Effects on \\ Typical First-Year Students, 1990/1995 \\
> >       (Robust Std. Errors in Parentheses)',
> >              caption.lot='HOPE Effects on Typical First-Year Students'
> >
> > The resulting latex output however, turns the "\\" into "\", which
> > will not create the line breaks that I want.
> >
> > How can I remedy this?
>
> You inserted \ not \\ !  (Remember that R character strings use C-style
> escapes: see e.g. ?Quotes.)  Use "\\\\" to insert \\
>
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