[R] printing an arbitrary-length character vector in columns on a page of a pdf report

[Christopher W Ryan]

I'm writing code for a recurring report, using an R --> Sweave --> pdflatex
workflow. It includes a character vector of short words that I would like
to display compactly, in columns on a page, rather than one word per line,
which would waste a lot of space. The vector of words will increase
unpredictably over time, with future versions of the report.

I thought I would go about it by turning the character vector into a
matrix, as follows:

dd <- LETTERS
## set number of columns. Three for now
nc <- 3
## have to pad the character vector to a length that is multiple of nc
add <- nc - (length(dd) %% nc)
dd2 <- c(dd, rep("", add))
ddm <- matrix(dd2, ncol = nc)
library(Hmisc)
latex(ddm, file = "")

Any ideas for a more elegant way to do this?

Thanks.

--Chris Ryan
Binghamton University
and
Broome County Health Department
Binghamton, NY, US

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