R help - Dec 2008 - Hmisc labels and captions in latex.list()

I am trying to feed a list to latex to use with SWeave, and the list  
comes from contents().  Since it is a list, a caption and label are  
generated by latex.list - these are not overridden by setting the  
parameters (such as caption='myCaption', label='myLabel').

I must clearly be missing something - is there no way to set a caption  
or label with the latex() function when the object is a list?

Thanks.

- Mike

J Michael Dean <mdean77 <at> comcast.net> writes:
> 
> I am trying to feed a list to latex to use with SWeave, and the list  
> comes from contents().  Since it is a list, a caption and label are  
> generated by latex.list - these are not overridden by setting the  
> parameters (such as caption='myCaption', label='myLabel').
> 
> I must clearly be missing something - is there no way to set a caption  
> or label with the latex() function when the object is a list?
> 
library(Hmisc)
dfr <-
data.frame(x=rnorm(20),y=sample(c('male','female'),20,TRUE))
cnt <- contents(dfr)
latex(cnt,label="tab:mytab",caption="This is a caption")


Works for me, even if I do not know what the output is good for.

Dieter

Thanks, Dieter, for your response shown below.

library(Hmisc)
dfr <-
data.frame(x=rnorm(20),y=sample(c('male','female'),20,TRUE))
cnt <- contents(dfr)
latex(cnt,label="tab:mytab",caption="This is a caption")


The problem is that I only want to display cnt[1] - I am simply making  
a table that shows the structure of a dataframe, and I do not want the  
variable levels from contents.
 > class(cnt)
[1] "contents.data.frame"
 > class(cnt[1])
[1] "list"

When I execute your example, it does work, but if I change it to  
latex(cnt[1]...) then the caption and label do not work because  
latex.list() is executed.

- Mike