[R] xtable, sweave and resizebox

[Gabor Grothendieck]

latex() in the Hmisc package can group rows using rgroup= and n.group=
arguments.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Welma Pereira<welma.pereira at gmail.com> wrote:
> Duncan,
>
> Thanks a lot! it sorted out the problem. I was too worried about learning
> how to use sweave that forgot to try other things :-)
>
> Teysseyre, I saw this doc but my table was large in width like almost not
> fitting the paper size..
>
> Its better now but I wonder how to make better tables using xtable like for
> example how to use a similar thing to \multirow..does anyone maybe have had
> to do that before?
>
> Thanks!
> regards,
> Welma.
>
>
> 2009/8/7 Duncan Mackay <mackay at northnet.com.au>
>
>> Hi Welma
>>
>> Have you thought about working with latex commands rather than Sweave
>> 1 reduce the space between the columns the default is 7
>>
>> \setlength\tabcolsep{3pt}
>>
>> 2 I frequently have wide tables so before the chunk
>> \begin{small}
>> <<>>
>> Sweave commands
>> @
>> \end{small}
>>
>> Its very late here ... and so to bed
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Duncan Mackay
>> Department of Agronomy and Soil Science
>> University of New England
>> ARMIDALE NSW 2351
>>
>> At 21:03 7/08/2009, you wrote:
>>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>> Content-Disposition: inline
>>> Content-length: 686
>>>
>>>
>>> does anyone know to rezize a table produzed by xtable?  The size of my
>>> table
>>> is too big and I would like to resize it like using resizebox but it gives
>>> an erros when I try using it
>>>
>>>
>>> using it its fine
>>>
>>> \SweaveOpts{echo=false}
>>> <<results=tex>>=
>>> xtable(stats0,caption='Número de transacções dos artigos frequentes e
>>> infrequentes',label='tab:INEStats')
>>> @
>>>
>>> but the size is too big
>>>
>>> so I try
>>> <<echo=False,results=hide>>=
>>> load('stats.Rdata')
>>> library(xtable)
>>>
>>> \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{
>>> \SweaveOpts{echo=false}
>>> <<results=tex>>=
>>> xtable(stats0,caption='text',label='tab:Stats')
>>> @
>>> }
>>>
>>> and it doesn t work anymore
>>>
>>> any hints?
>>>
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