Dear latex/R-Sweavers, Using the codel below, I can color text in individual cells for latex output. Is there a similar way to get a background shading? My attempts failed because I did not get the closing brace at the right place with Hmisc/latex. library(Hmisc) x <- as.data.frame(diag(rnorm(3),nrow=3)) cellTex <- matrix(rep("", NROW(x) * NCOL(x)), nrow=NROW(x)) cellTex[2,2] <- "\color{red}" ct <- latex(x, cellTexCmds = cellTex,numeric.dollar=FALSE) ct$style <- "color" dvi(ct) ----- TO GET MORE DETAILS CLICK HERE -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Hmisc-latex-cell-background-color-tp4651664.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.