[R] Miss lines in LaTex code generated by function xtable in R

[David Winsemius]

On May 15, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Liao, Hongsheng wrote:

> data(tli)
> ## Demonstrate data.frame
> tli.table <- xtable(tli[1:10,])
> digits(tli.table)[c(2,6)] <- 0
> print(tli.table,floating=FALSE)
> 
> I used above R code to generate Latex code as below.  However, Tex Live can't run the code after I code and paste it to Tex Live.  The reasons are: at the very beginning of the Latex code, two lines are missing:
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> 
> At the end of the Latex code, one line is missing: \end{document}.  I have to type those three lines in TeX Live in order to run the code.  Does anyone know how to add those three lines in xtable function in R?  Thanks.
> 

Just use paste(). Note that the help page for ?print.xtable says: "Note that the function also (invisibly) returns a character vector of the results (which can be helpful for post-processing). "

-- 
David.
> 
> % latex table generated in R 3.1.0 by xtable 1.7-3 package
> % Thu May 15 14:25:13 2014
> \begin{table}[ht]
> \centering
> \begin{tabular}{rrlllr}
>  \hline\hline
> & grade & sex & disadvg & ethnicty & tlimth \\
>  \hline
> 1 & 6 & M & YES & HISPANIC & 43 \\
>  2 & 7 & M & NO & BLACK & 88 \\
>  3 & 5 & F & YES & HISPANIC & 34 \\
>  4 & 3 & M & YES & HISPANIC & 65 \\
>  5 & 8 & M & YES & WHITE & 75 \\
>  6 & 5 & M & NO & BLACK & 74 \\
>  7 & 8 & F & YES & HISPANIC & 72 \\
>  8 & 4 & M & YES & BLACK & 79 \\
>  9 & 6 & M & NO & WHITE & 88 \\
>  10 & 7 & M & YES & HISPANIC & 87 \\
>  11 & 3 & M & NO & WHITE & 79 \\
>  12 & 6 & F & NO & WHITE & 84 \\
>  13 & 8 & M & NO & WHITE & 90 \\
>  14 & 5 & M & NO & WHITE & 73 \\
>  15 & 8 & F & NO & WHITE & 72 \\
>  16 & 6 & F & NO & BLACK & 82 \\
>  17 & 4 & M & NO & WHITE & 69 \\
>  18 & 3 & F & YES & HISPANIC & 17 \\
>  19 & 3 & M & NO & HISPANIC & 37 \\
>  20 & 5 & M & NO & WHITE & 70 \\
>   \hline\hline
> \end{tabular}
> \end{table}
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hongsheng (Hank) Liao, PhD.
> Lab Manager
> Center for Quantitative  Fisheries Ecology
> Old Dominion University
> 757-683-4571
> 
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David Winsemius
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