[R] Sweave schunk placement

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Feb 20 17:24:51 CET 2009


On 2/20/2009 11:08 AM, Ista Zahn wrote:
> Dear Professor Leisch + R helpers,
> For the past few days I have been trying to figure out why the LaTeX
> endfloat package is not working with Sweave. I figured it out, and
> it's trivial: The endfloat package requires that \begin{table} and
> \end{table} commands are on their own line. But Sweave is writing
> LaTeX code like \end{table}\end{Schunk} which causes endfloat to
> choke. Simply moving the code down to a new line like this:
> \end{table}
> \end{Schunk}
>  fixes the problem, but it is annoying to do this for every table
> everytime I re-run Sweave. I don't understand LaTeX that well, so I'd
> be really grateful if someone can tell me how to modify Sweave.sty (or
> another file if needed) so that the \end{Schunk}'s are written on new
> lines.

I don't know how you are getting \end{table} printed, but ask for a 
newline after that.  (Sweave.sty plays no part in the production of the 
.tex file.  That is done completely by R code, some of which is written 
by the author of the document, i.e. you.)

Duncan Murdoch




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