
Dear list,
I have a question about the interaction between R code and Latex language trough the Sweave function in the package "utils".
What I'm  trying to do is to write a report.  Contrary to the examples shown in the Sweave Manual in which table already constructed by R are "exported" on Latex files, what I would like to do is to build a table in which I combine text and specific columns of my data frame. I will give you the following example to be much more clear.
Suppose I have a data frame like this:

Firms                        Year                 IIA                       IIB          IIC
electrolux                1995                100                       45            65
electrolux                1996                340                      67            97
electrolux                1997                35                         99           31
fiat                            1995                 76                        34          45
fiat                            1996                567                       35          66
fiat                            1997                453                      89          37


Where IIA is the turnover of the firm, IIB is the production and IIC is the cost of labour.

I would like to get a table like this in the latex format this:
Firms 1
electrolux
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  variables                     1995         1997        1997

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
turnover                         100          340            35
production                      45            67              99
cost of labour                  65            97             31
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


I use the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\title{example}
\begin{document}

\maketitle
<<echo=F>>=
mydata$firms
@
variables 
<<echo=F>>=
mydata$year
@


and so on. I have two problem, first I'm not able to put on the same line text and output of R. So  on my Latex document I get for example
variable
1995 1996 1997


and I don't want this. The secondo problem is that at the beginnig of the R output I get the index, namely
variable
[1] 1995 1996 1997
and I don't want to see it.
Anyone Knows how to do it or if there is another package in R that give me the possibility to create a Report by constructing table without any problems???

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