[R] Sweave problem, with multicolumn tables from R to LaTeX

[Christian Salas]

hi Ista,
i did load xtable() before because i was comparing if using it was any 
different, but still i got the same problem.
I hope somebody can give us a solution or some tips soon!

thanks
c
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Ista Zahn wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> I've been having this problem as well. There are bug reports about
> this (one of them mine):
> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/trac/Hmisc/ticket/25
> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/trac/Hmisc/ticket/28
> so hopefully the developers are aware of the problem and will address
> it in the next release.
> 
> 
> By the way: what do you need the xtable library for? I see that you
> loaded it, but never call any of the functions in your example code.
> 
> All the best,
> Ista
> From: Christian Salas <christian.salas at yale.edu>
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:05:34 -0400
> Subject: [R] Sweave problem, with multicolumn tables from R to LaTeX
> Hi there,
> 
> I have been using the example provided bellow for a while, and It was
> working without any problem. Nevertheless, just since 2-3 days is not
> working, probably because I did update.packages(). I have tried to
> re-install the older versions of the packages Hmisc() and xtable(),
> but still does not work. Can you run this example, and tell me if you
> got the same problems?
> 
> I use linux-ubuntu, and R 2.8.1
> 
> Here is my .Rnw file
> 
> %%%%%%%
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
> \usepackage{Sweave}
> \SweaveOpts{echo=TRUE}
> 
> \title{Why is not working this? a table from R having multi columns
> names}
> \author{Myself}
> \date{\today}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
> 
> <<label=my.load.fx,keep.source=T>>=
> #Calling some packages
> library(Hmisc)
> library(xtable)
> 
> #version of the packages
> packageDescription('Hmisc')$Version #version of Hmisc
> packageDescription('xtable')$Version  #version of xtable
> 
> #version and features of my PC and R
> R.version$platform
> R.version$version.string
> @
> 
> \section{The table ready to be exported}
> An R table as an example.
> <<>>=
> tab.coef.allmodels <-
> structure(c(246.8809, 153.6952, 43.6259, 1823.686, -4.0138, -53.8741,
> -13.9552, -699.7154, 0, -3.0084, -0.5188, -41.7249, 4.0898,
> 2.0342, 0.2798, 25.636, 235.5128, 160.0244, 30.0147, 1523.0723,
> 3.7601, -53.9238, -3.9789, -597.1446, 0, -3.2745, -0.0025, -28.7418,
> 4.4203, 2.1606, 0.0124, 17.9259), .Dim = c(4L, 8L), .Dimnames = list(
>    c("NHA", "GHA", "Hdom", "VHA"), c("Intercept", "stand2",
>    "band3", "band7", "Intercept", "stand2", "band3", "band7"
>    )))
> tab.coef.allmodels
> @
> 
> \section{Producing the \LaTeX\ table}
> \subsection{Showing a simple output table, but not being
>  the aimed one}
> 
> The following syntax produce Table \ref{tab:coefAllmod1}, which is not
> what I want.
> <<label=tab1>>=
> l <- latex(tab.coef.allmodels, file="tab.coefAllmod1.tex",
> rowlabel="Model for",
>      first.hline.double=FALSE,
>      rowlabel.just="l",
> caption="MLR and LME parameter estimates by stand variables",
>      caption.loc="top", label="tab:coefAllmod1",where="!h")
> @
> 
> \input{tab.coefAllmod1}
> 
> 
> \subsection{What I want, but not getting it right}
> The following syntax produce Table \ref{tab:coefAllmod2}, which
> contains all the information that i want, but is not giving me
> the correct format.
> <<label=tab2>>=
> l <- latex(tab.coef.allmodels, file="tab.coefAllmod2.tex",
> rowlabel="Model for",
>      first.hline.double=FALSE,
>      rowlabel.just="l",
>     cgroup=c("MLR","LME"),
>     n.cgroup=c(4,4),
> caption="MLR and LME parameter estimates by stand variables",
>      caption.loc="top", label="tab:coefAllmod2",where="!h")
> @
> 
> \input{tab.coefAllmod2}
> 
> I have been using this
> syntax for a while, and was working without any problem.
>  Nevertheless, just since 2-3 days is not working, probably
>  because I did {\tt update.packages()}.
>  I have tried to re-install the older versions of the packages
>  {\tt Hmisc()} and {\tt xtable()}, but still does not work.
> 
> \vspace{1in}
> {\Large   {\bf What Am I missing here?}}
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> %%%%%%%
> 
> The the main .tex file, tables, the ouput pdf, and the .Rnw files are
> in the following url, if you want to check them
> 
> http://environment.yale.edu/salas/questions/shortTable/multcolTable_short.tex
> http://environment.yale.edu/salas/questions/shortTable/tab.coefAllmod1.tex
> http://environment.yale.edu/salas/questions/shortTable/tab.coefAllmod2.tex
> http://environment.yale.edu/salas/questions/shortTable/multcolTable_short.pdf
> http://environment.yale.edu/salas/questions/shortTable/multcolTable_short.Rnw
> 
> thanks in advance for your help
>