You have to tell us how or what on earth you cat()ed. I do not think you need R tricks (are you talking about the tricks in demo(plotmath)?). I believe something like this should work:
<<results=tex>>= cat('\\textbf{abc}') @ Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Shane Siers <shanesi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get bold text from a cat() statement within a Sweave chunk > (results=tex). None of the tricks I know to get boldface text from R or > LaTeX are not working. Ideas? > > -- > Shane > >