longtable

This existing question covers a way to alternate row colors in a latex table by post-processing the output from print.xtable() , but I think it's possible to achieve the same thing by using the add.to.row argument of print.xtable() as described on stats.stackexchange , avoiding the need for post-processing, which is nice with Sweave. That answer deals with coloring the background of one specific row, but I think it can be extended to coloring all the odd rows. The problem I'm running into has to do with the add.to.row argument, making the length of list pos equal the length of character vector

I am new to knitr and I have had some very basic latex knowledge in the past, so I googled already hoping to find a solution that was already posted somewhere. However, I was not able to solve my problem. I am hoping someone will be kind enough to provide help. I have a data frame of 14 columns and many rows, let's say 60. Using the data I need to produce a PDF report in landscape layout and present this data frame as a table there. The closest solution I found is here at tex.stackexchange.com: LaTex Longtable spanning several pages I used some of the hints there. However, the table is not

I am using R packages ( xtable and knitr ) and Latex packages ( longtable and hyperref ) to prepare a document. One of my tables is very long and splits onto multiple pages. It turned out that the "List of Table" shows every page number at which this table appears, but all hyperlinks bring me to the beginning of this table. My question is, in "List of Table" how can I just show the first page number at which this table appears. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{hyperref} <<setup, include=FALSE, cache=FALSE>>= library(knitr) library(xtable) @ \begin{document}