Dear Ista,

Do you happen to know of a way to use the {tabularx} LaTeX pacakge, so to
have it work with xtables?

I would rather have my columns adjust themselves then to rotate my table.

Thank you in advance,
Tal




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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Aurelien,
>
> You just need to put the \caption outside the scalebox command, like this:
>
>  \documentclass[11pt]{report}
> \usepackage{rotating}
>  %\usepackage[counterclockwise]{rotating}
> \usepackage{graphics}
> \usepackage{float}
>
>
> \pagestyle{empty}
>
>
> \begin{document}
> \begin{sidewaystable}[ht]
> \centering
> \scalebox{0.7}{
>
> % latex table generated in R 2.13.1 by xtable 1.6-0 package
> % Wed Feb  1 10:29:25 2012
> \begin{tabular}{ccc}
>  \hline
>  & V1 & V2 \\
>  \hline
>  &  &  \\
>  6.91 & 500.00 & 4.00 \\
>  400.00 &  & 400.00 \\
>   \hline
> \end{tabular}
> }
> \caption{Title}
> \end{sidewaystable}
> \end{document}
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:37:47 AM Aurélien PHILIPPOT wrote:
>
> Thanks Ista.
> Your suggestion works.
> When I make the option floating=F, the caption no longer appears in the Tex
> code generated by xtable. If I had \caption {Title} in the code, it does
> not
> seem to work.
>  \documentclass[11pt]{report}
> \usepackage{rotating}
>  %\usepackage[counterclockwise]{rotating}
> \usepackage{graphics}
> \usepackage{float}
>
>
> \pagestyle{empty}
>
>
> \begin{document}
> \begin{sidewaystable}[ht]
> \scalebox{0.7}{
>
>
> % latex table generated in R 2.13.1 by xtable 1.6-0 package
> % Wed Feb  1 10:29:25 2012
> \begin{tabular}{ccc}
>  \hline
>  & V1 & V2 \\
>  \hline
>  &  &  \\
>  6.91 & 500.00 & 4.00 \\
>  400.00 &  & 400.00 \\
>   \hline
> \end{tabular}
> \caption{Title}
> }
> \end{sidewaystable}
> \end{document}
>
>
> So, I am faced with a dilemma. If I use the code from my previous email, I
> could have the landscape and the title work, but if I incorporate scalebox
> in
> Latex it does not work. If I use the floating=F solution, I can rescale and
> landscape, but I have troubles having a caption. That's weird.
>
>
> Best,
> Aurelien
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2012/2/1 Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> It looks like you need scalebox inside the sidewaystable environment. If
> you
> must use scalebox, one solution is to use floating=FALSE when you call
> print.xtable, and insert the table environment directly in LaTeX, like
> this:
>
> \begin{sidewaystable}[ht]
> \scalebox{0.7}{
> <<code1,results=tex,echo=false>>=
> print(outfile, include.rownames=F, floating = FALSE)
> @
> }
> \end{sidewaystable}
>
> Alternatively, since the size of the table is determined by the size of the
> text in the table, you can just tell LaTeX to use a smaller font, e.g.
>
> <<results=tex,echo=false>>=
> print(outfile, include.rownames=F, floating.environment='sidewaystable',
> size
> = "scriptsize")
> @
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:41:27 PM Aurélien PHILIPPOT wrote:
> > Dear R users,
> > I am new to Latex and I am using the R package xtable to generate tables.
> > I want to produce a table that is very long.  in the landscape format,
> but
> > I would need to rescale the table so that it fits in the page. xtable
> > enables me to have the landscape format, but I cannot rescale it, and
> there
> > seems to be a problem, if I use scalebox in Latex on my output produced
> > with stable and the option sidewaystable. Do you know any way to achieve
> > this result with xtable or another R package?
> >
> > Let's look at the following example:
> > In R, I use the following code
> >
> > ##############
> > outfile<- matrix(nrow=3, ncol=3)
> > outfile[2,1]<- 6.912
> > outfile[3,1]<- 400
> > outfile[2,2]<- 8.9722
> > outfile[2,2]<- 500
> > outfile[2,3]<- 4.00
> > outfile[3,3]<- 400
> >
> >
> >
> > library(xtable)
> > outfile<- data.frame(outfile)
> > colnames(outfile)<- c(" ","V1", "V2")
> >
> > outfile<- xtable(outfile, caption= "Title", include.rownames=F,
> > align=rep("c", 4), digit=2)
> > print(outfile, include.rownames=F, floating.environment='sidewaystable')
> > ################
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to rescale in Latex when  the code was
> > generated through xtable.  Indeed, when I run the latex table obtained
> from
> > xtable, and use scale box, it does not work (and the problem comes from
> > scalebox, which works otherwise).
> >
> > \documentclass[11pt]{report}
> >
> > \usepackage{rotating}
> >
> >  %\usepackage[counterclockwise]{rotating}
> >
> > \usepackage{graphics}
> >
> > \usepackage{float}
> >
> >
> > \pagestyle{empty}
> >
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >
> > \scalebox{0.70} { %resize
> >
> >
> > % latex table generated in R 2.13.1 by xtable 1.6-0 package
> >
> > % Tue Jan 31 23:26:10 2012
> >
> > \begin{sidewaystable}[ht]
> >
> > \begin{center}
> >
> > \begin{tabular}{ccc}
> >
> >   \hline
> >
> >   & V1 & V2 \\
> >
> >   \hline
> >
> >  &  &  \\
> >
> >   6.91 & 500.00 & 4.00 \\
> >
> >   400.00 &  & 400.00 \\
> >
> >    \hline
> >
> > \end{tabular}
> >
> > \caption{Title}
> >
> > \end{center}
> >
> > \end{sidewaystable}
> >
> >
> > }
> >
> > \end{document}
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot for any advice.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Aurelien
> >
>
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