Stargazer tables: Math Annotations

r, stargazer

Solution

`covariate.labels` needs to be a character vector. Remember that you need to escape backslashes with another backslash in an R string though.

stargazer(mtcars[,1:2],covariate.labels=c("$\\beta_{0}$", "$\\beta_{1}$"))

% Table created by stargazer v.4.5.3 by Marek Hlavac, Harvard University. E-mail: hlavac at fas.harvard.edu
% Date and time: Wed, Feb 05, 2014 - 16:21:19
\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering 
  \caption{} 
  \label{} 
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}lccccc} 
\\[-1.8ex]\hline 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
Statistic & \multicolumn{1}{c}{N} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Mean} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{St. Dev.} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Min} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Max} \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
$\beta_{0}$ & 32 & 20.091 & 6.027 & 10.400 & 33.900 \\ 
$\beta_{1}$ & 32 & 6.188 & 1.786 & 4 & 8 \\ 
\hline \\[-1.8ex] 
\normalsize 
\end{tabular} 
\end{table}

Problem

The stargazer package for R has two arguments, covariate.labels and column.labels, that customize table text. I want to use Greeks or math expressions in these arguments. Ive tried standard syntax for latex text and Ive tried stand R expressions, as shown below: ``` covariate.labels = c($\beta_{0}$, $\beta_{1}$) covariate.labels = c(expression(beta[0]), expression(beta[1])) ``` Ive also tried variations on the above and Im yet to achieve the basic math symbol annotations. Any help is appreciated.

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