[R] Output to Latex using Memisc almost works

Eelke E.O.Folmer at rug.nl
Tue Aug 26 12:03:53 CEST 2008


Thank you Martin,
It turned out that my problem was that I used underscores "_" in my variable
names. No problem for R, but Latex didn't like it.
Kind regards,
Eelke


Martin Elff wrote:
> 
> On Monday 25 August 2008 (15:36:50), Eelke wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm using memisc to output regression results to tables and latex. My
>> problem is that the output that Latex needs must be in between $  $ so
>> that
>> it is read as formula but memisc does not output the result between $ $.
>> For example, latex needs: $0.05^{***}$  and memisc outputs 0.05^{***} in
>> an
>> entry.
>> I am new to Latex and I imagine it could also be a latex 'problem' and
>> not
>> necessarily memisc.
> I would suggest you put 
> "\usepackage{dcolumn}" into the preamble of your LaTeX file. This will
> automagically insert the dollars into the columns. 
> 
> memisc's mtable function works fine with that (at least in my 
> experience, I use it on a regular basis as one might suspect :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin
> 
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