R help - Aug 2012 - A LaTeX question -- Hope people won't mind

Hello All,

Hope people won't mind my posting a LaTeX question here. I know a lot of
people who use R are also using LaTeX. I'm in a bit of a rush to complete a
document and am having trouble with one aspect of the formatting.

I'm creating a list of tables using: 

\listoftables

I also have some table captions that contain the number of patients in an
anlysis like:

\caption{Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}

The tables look great. Trouble is that LaTeX inserts the "(N = 700)"
into the text in the List of Tables at the beginning of the document. I'd
prefer that it not do so.

Is there some simple way to fix this?

Thanks,

Paul

On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Paul Miller <pjmiller_57 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Hope people won't mind my posting a LaTeX question here. I know a lot
of people who use R are also using LaTeX. I'm in a bit of a rush to complete
a document and am having trouble with one aspect of the formatting.
> 
> I'm creating a list of tables using: 
> 
> \listoftables
> 
> I also have some table captions that contain the number of patients in an
anlysis like:
> 
> \caption{Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}
> 
> The tables look great. Trouble is that LaTeX inserts the "(N =
700)" into the text in the List of Tables at the beginning of the document.
I'd prefer that it not do so.
> 
> Is there some simple way to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul

Hi Paul,

See this page:

 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions#Lists_of_figures_and_tables

The \caption command has primarily two arguments:

  \caption[short text]{long text}

Note that the first part, within the square brackets, will be the text included
in the list of tables.

So in your example above:

  \caption[Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data]
          {Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

Here you go:

\caption[Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data]{Results for Random
Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}

but all you really need to know about latex is there:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX.

Nico


On 20 Aug 2012, at 22:13, Paul Miller wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Hope people won't mind my posting a LaTeX question here. I know a lot
of people who use R are also using LaTeX. I'm in a bit of a rush to complete
a document and am having trouble with one aspect of the formatting.
> 
> I'm creating a list of tables using: 
> 
> \listoftables
> 
> I also have some table captions that contain the number of patients in an
anlysis like:
> 
> \caption{Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}
> 
> The tables look great. Trouble is that LaTeX inserts the "(N =
700)" into the text in the List of Tables at the beginning of the document.
I'd prefer that it not do so.
> 
> Is there some simple way to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
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Hi Paul,

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Paul Miller <pjmiller_57 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Hope people won't mind my posting a LaTeX question here. I know a lot
of people who use R are also using LaTeX. I'm in a bit of a rush to complete
a document and am having trouble with one aspect of the formatting.
You might get better help here:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/

But:
> I'm creating a list of tables using:
>
> \listoftables
>
> I also have some table captions that contain the number of patients in an
anlysis like:
>
> \caption{Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}
>
> The tables look great. Trouble is that LaTeX inserts the "(N =
700)" into the text in the List of Tables at the beginning of the document.
I'd prefer that it not do so.
I think you can do something like:

\caption[Short caption for listoftables]{Longer caption for body of text ...}

HTH,
-steve

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