[R] getting line breaks with xtable

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try placing your text in a parbox:

x<-as.table(cbind(1:3,rep("\\parbox{5cm}{this is an example for a long
character string that I want break into several lines}")))
print(xtable(x), sanitize.text = force)

You may need to fix up the vertical spacing as well.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Erich Studerus
<erich.studerus at bli.uzh.ch> wrote:
> Ok. Sorry, here's a reproducible example:
>
> library(xtable)
> x<-as.table(cbind(1:3,rep("this is an example for a long character string
> that I want break into several lines")))
> xtable(x)
>
> Regards
>
> Erich
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 19. September 2008 15:50
> An: Erich Studerus
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Betreff: Re: [R] getting line breaks with xtable
>
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> one reason you may be getting no responses.
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Erich Studerus
> <erich.studerus at bli.uzh.ch> wrote:
>> Sorry, for asking the same question again, but I got no reactions the last
>> time. Maybe it was just overseen by the experts.
>> I'm using the xtable function with Sweave and Lyx and I would like to know
>> how to get automatic line breaks for long strings in a column of the
> table.
>> I've learned from the Lyx wiki that the Latex command \linebreak produces
>> table cells with multiple lines. I tried to insert \linebreak into the
>> character string, but it didn't work out, because Sweave transforms it
>> automatically to $\backslash$linebreak.
>>
>> Any help is highly appreciated.
>>
>> Erich
>>
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