getting line breaks with xtable
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
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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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