I had tried that earlier and didn't work either, I probably have \Sexpr in the wrong place. See example: Column one header gets blank:
\documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{longtable,verbatim,ctable} \usepackage{longtable,pdflscape} \usepackage{fmtcount,hyperref} \usepackage{fullpage} \title{United States} \begin{document} \setkeys{Gin}{width=1\textwidth} \maketitle <<echo=F,results=hide>>= report <- structure(list(Date = c("3/12/2010", "3/13/2010", "3/14/2010", "3/15/2010"), Run1 = c("33 (119 ? 119)", "n (0 ? 0)", "893 (110 ? 146)", "140 (111 ? 150)"), Run2 = c("33 (71 ? 71)", "n (0 ? 0)", "337 (67 ? 74)", "140 (68 ? 84)"), Run3 = c("890 (32 ? 47)", "n (0 ? 0)", "10,602 (32 ? 52)", "2,635 (34 ? 66)"), Run4 = c("0 ( ? )", "n (0 ? 0)", "0 ( ? )", "0 ( ? )"), Run4 = c("0 ( ? )", "n (0 ? 0)", "0 ( ? )", "0 ( ? )")), .Names = c("ID_Date", "Run1", "Run2", "Run3", "Run4", "Run5"), row.names = c(NA, 4L), class = "data.frame") require(stringr) report <- t(apply(report, 1, function(x) {str_replace(x, "\\?", "-")})) #report #latex(report,file="") @ \begin{landscape} \begin{table}[!tbp] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{llllll}\hline\hline \multicolumn{1}{c}{\Sexpr{names(report)[1]}} # Using \Sexpr here &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Run1} &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Run2} &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Run3} &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Run4} &\multicolumn{1}{c}{Run5}\tabularnewline \hline 1&3/12/2010&33 (119 ? 119)&33 (71 ? 71)&890 (32 ? 47)&0 ( ? )&0 ( ? )\tabularnewline 2&3/13/2010&n (0 ? 0)&n (0 ? 0)&n (0 ? 0)&n (0 ? 0)&n (0 ? 0)\tabularnewline 3&3/14/2010&893 (110 ? 146)&337 (67 ? 74)&10,602 (32 ? 52)&0 ( ? )&0 ( ? )\tabularnewline 4&3/15/2010&140 (111 ? 150)&140 (68 ? 84)&2,635 (34 ? 66)&0 ( ? )&0 ( ? )\tabularnewline \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{table} \end{landscape} \end{document} Felipe D. Carrillo Supervisory Fishery Biologist Department of the Interior US Fish & Wildlife Service California, USA ----- Original Message ---- > From: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > To: Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com> > Cc: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>; r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 3:14:49 PM > Subject: Re: [R] How to select the column header with \Sexpr{} > > > On Jul 12, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Felipe Carrillo wrote: > > > Thanks for the quick reply Duncan. > > I don't think I have explained myself well, I have a dataset named "report" >and > > my column headers are run1,run2,run3,run4 and so on. > > > > I know how to access the data below those columns with \Sexpr{report[1,1]} & > > &\Sexpr{report[1,2]} and so on, but I can't access my column headers > > with \Sexpr{} because I can't find the way to reference run1,run2,run3 and >run4. > > Sorry if I am not explain myself really well. > > Wouldn't this just be: > > \Sexpr{names(report)} # ? or perhaps you want specific items in that vector? > > Sexpr{names(report)[1]}, Sexpr{names(report)[2]}, etc > > --David. > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > >> To: Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com> > >> Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > >> Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 2:18:15 PM > >> Subject: Re: [R] How to select the column header with \Sexpr{} > >> > >> On 12/07/2010 5:10 PM, Felipe Carrillo wrote: > >>> Hi: > >>> Since I work with a few different fish runs my column headers change > >> everytime > >>> I start a new Year. I have been using \Sexpr{} for my row and columns and >now > >> I am trying to use with my report column headers. \Sexpr{1,1} is row 1 >column 1, > >>> what can I use for headers? I tried \Sexpr{0,1} but sweave didn't like > >> it..Thanks in advance > >>> for any hints > >>> > >> > >> \Sexpr takes an R expression, and inserts the first element of the result >into > >> your text. Using just "0,1" (not including the quotes) is not a valid R > >> expression. > >> > >> You need to use paste() or some other function to construct the label you >want > >> to put in place, e.g. \Sexpr{paste(0,1,sep=",")} will give you "0,1". > >> > >> Duncan Murdoch > >> > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.