Extra curly braces when using xtable and knitr, after specifiying size

Question

I\'m creating a R Markdown document using knitr and am running into trouble using xtable to create a table. My table is very large and I\'m trying

Answer 1

I was able to fix this by not including the size parameter in the print statement but rather directly before and after the chunk.

\begin{footnotesize}

#chunk

\end{footnotesize}