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I am trying to solve the problem of having a latex table (produced using the xtable <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xtable/index.html>, then inserted to a latex file using Sweave), exceeding the margins of my LaTeX document. I found that one such solution can be based on the tabularx<http://ctan.org/pkg/tabularx> package, and I am wondering what would be the best way to implement it (or if there is a better solution I am overlooking). Right now the only way I am thinking of is to edit print.xtable so it would work with the tabularx LaTeX package. Any other suggestions wo...

...ut like this more easily? I wrote a one-liner which formats the lines separately, but it would be nice to have the columns aligned as given in (2). I believe it is most helpful to have the output in a form which is readable in a *source* file (i.e., .tex), since the headers/footers from tabular [or tabularx etc.] are often easy to put in the document. Cheers, Marius

...ble_options() provides right-justification of the entries, however, they are now all wrapped in \multicolumn{1}{c}{...}. Why? Cheers, Marius Here is a .tex wrapper for convenience: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage[american]{babel} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{booktabs} \begin{document} % put code here \end{document}