EDIT: The question is not really relevant for me any more, I decided to instead use the highlight
package in R
to export Code as LaTeX output. This still requires manual modifications, but at least I could get it to work. Maybe the question could still be kept open and "unanswered" in case anyone comes up with a solution.
I am using the listings package to include some R code into LaTeX. Now, some R functions like date()
or start
are highlighted (in blue). However, some of my variables, unfortunately include strings like date or start. I would like that only the functions are highlighted, but not the stuff in the variable names. For example in the following code, only the date
in the first line should be highlighted
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.95}
\definecolor{darkgray}{gray}{0.5}
\definecolor{mauve}{rgb}{0.58,0,0.82}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{
language=R, % the language of the code
basicstyle=\footnotesize, % the size of the fonts that are used for the code
numbers=none, % where to put the line-numbers
backgroundcolor=\color{lightgray}, % choose the background color. You must add \usepackage{color}
showspaces=false, % show spaces adding particular underscores
showstringspaces=false, % underline spaces within strings
showtabs=false, % show tabs within strings adding particular underscores
tabsize=2, % sets default tabsize to 2 spaces
breaklines=true, % sets automatic line breaking
keywordstyle=\color{blue}, % keyword style
commentstyle=\color{darkgray}, % comment style
stringstyle=\color{mauve}, % string literal style
}
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=R]
a <- date(123)
date.a <- 123
a.start <- 456
a_start <- 456
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
This is what the output looks like:
Is there any way to exclude the other apparences of date
, or general apparences of start
from the highlighting?
I tried adding a deletekeywords={start}
option to \lstset
, but it does not change the output
In case there is no such option, I would also be happy to remove any highlighting of date
or start
at all, but the deletekeywords={start}
option does not seem to do the job.
Further, I tried the command with which "." and "_" can be added to the list of letters, but that didn't change anything as well. Maybe some weird interaction. I found a completely other solution instead, and now use the highlight
package directly in R
. Not really an elegant solution, but at least I could get it to work