hi, i have a little problem with my *.Rd files i write. i have to use very often the special character "_" and in building the help files it is no problem, but when compiling the manual with latex it does not work. so i replaced all "_" with "\_", now the package manual is nicely build in latex, but the html help shows now the "\_" instead of "_". any ideas? cheers, jo

"Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Rainer" <johannes.rainer@tugraz.at> writes: > i have a little problem with my *.Rd files i write. i have to use very > often the special character "_" and in building the help files it is no > problem, but when compiling the manual with latex it does not work. so > i replaced all "_" with "\_", now the package manual is nicely build in > latex, but the html help shows now the "\_" instead of "_". > any ideas? Assuming the "_"'s appear as part of the code, have you tried wrapping these in \code{some_var_with_underscores} ? According to the Writing R Extensions Manual, the \code{} markup should do the right thing. But I would have expected \_ to work as well. This is with R 2.1.0 beta ? + seth