A Small Question

[Doug Martin]

Scott and all,

Here you go.  As you will see, the Table is fine, but we get the "knitr
errors" message:
LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode.

Doug

P.S. We like various capabilities that the kableExtra package provides us
with, e.g.,
in this simple example the add_header_above via kable_styling.
Of course if we ever find out how to directly import a data frame into the
LYX table
capability, we will probably use it a lot.

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 12:05 PM Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:12:15AM -0600, Doug Martin wrote:
> > Tom Philips and I create tables in LYX using the knitr package function
> > kable (with the package kableExtra) in the
> > following way:
> >
> >
> >
> >    1. Insert > Float > Table
> >    2. In the float, enter a name and header for the table in the space
> >    provided
> >    3. Just below the name, *but still inside the float*, press Ctrl-L to
> >    create a box for Latex code
> >    4. Enter all the code for the table including the kable code that
> >    actually generates it into the box for Latex code
> >
> > This causes a “Not in outer par mode” error (see below), but creates a
> > table that we are quite fine with.  Our Tech
> > Support person at Springer told us that the reason is due to embedding
> the
> > Rnw file for Table output in the LYX file,
> > so that there is a table code inside another table in LaTeX as
> highlighted
> > below.
> >
> >
> >
> > \begin{table}[H]
> >
> > \caption{Equity Returns in Twenty--One Countries: 12/31/1899--12/31/2019}
> >
> > \begin{table}
> >
> > \centering\begingroup\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont
> >
> > \begin{tabular}{lcccc}
> >
> > \toprule
> >
> > …..
> >
> > …..
> >
> > \end{tabular}
> >
> > \endgroup{}
> >
> > \end{table}
> >
> > \label{tab:GlobalEquityReturns}
> >
> > \end{table}
> >
> > and he suggested to solve the problem by adding the yellow highlighted
> > lines below.
> >
> > \begin{table}[H]
> >
> > \caption{Global Annualized Real Returns For Stocks, Bonds and Bills}
> >
> > \begingroup
> >
> > \def\table{\begin{center}\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont}
> >
> > \def\endtable{\end{center}}
> >
> > \begin{table}
> >
> > ……
> >
> >
> >
> > *And the second insertion will be: *
> >
> > \end{table}
> >
> > \endgroup
> >
> > \label{tab:GlobalEquityBondsCashReturns}
> >
> > \end{table}
> >
> >
> > This actually works fine.  Except that for every table we have to do that
> > insertion, and Tom and I are just
> > wondering if there some capability of LYX to accomplish the same thing
> > without us having to do those insertions
> > for every table?
> >
> > Doug
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> Could you send (to the list) a minimal example .lyx file (complete with
> a simple knitr chunk with kable code) that we can experiment with?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>


-- 
R. Douglas Martin
Professor Emeritus in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Founder and Former Director of MS-CFRM Program
depts.washington.edu/compfin/
University of Washington
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