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Hi, I'm trying to build a vector of latex commands. However, I need the command strings to begin with a backslash "\". I have: test <- c('foo','bar') and I need to rebuild the array, encapsulating the text items with latex stuff, like this: paste("\parbox[b]{3cm}{", test, "}", fill=TRUE) Actually, cat() prints the string fine if one uses double backslashes. However, I can't save the result from cat() back to a vector. And when I use cat() inside the latex function from the Hmisc package, I only get errors... The (not so) funny th...

Hi, I use the excellent Sweave tools for writing documents but was wondering how to neatly print a data.frame with long column headings. I cant manage to do this via package:xtable. Typically the labels that I would like use for each column consist of more than one word, but even with just one word, the heading is often wider than the contents of the column. So the number of columns that fits

Hi all, I've got a basic question regarding package documentation and rd.sty. I wrote my first own package, and now I would like to place the documentation into the appendix of another LaTex document. Seemingly I cannot simply \usepackage{Rd}, as this will modify the page-settings of my document. Is there a minimum style file which will just define the environments and commands needed for