wrapLaTable: Wrapper for a floating LaTeX Table

Description

wrapLaTable() wraps (a table and tabular environment) around the lines of the body of a LaTeX table and utilizes writeLines() to write the LaTeX table.

Usage

wrapLaTable(x, align, do.table = TRUE, placement = "htbp", center = TRUE,
            fontsize = "normalsize", booktabs = TRUE,
            caption = NULL, label = NULL)

Arguments

a character vector containing the lines of the body of the table (for booktabs tables, everything strictly between \midrule

align

table columns alignment string (e.g.,
    "lcccS[table-format=1.2]", the notation of "S[...]"
    coming from the LaTeX package siunitx).

do.table

logical indicating whether a LaTeX
    table environment should be used at all.

placement

(if do.table:) character string
    containing a LaTeX table placement string such as "htbp".

center

logical indicating whether centering
    should happen.

fontsize

character string giving a fontsize
    (such as "tiny", "scriptsize", "footnotesize",
    "small", "normalsize", "large",

booktabs

logical indicating whether a LaTeX
    table in the format of the LaTeX booktabs package is
    created.

caption

(if do.table:) character string
    containing the table caption or NULL for no caption.

label

(if do.table:) character string
    containing the table label or NULL for no label.

`Value`

a LaTeX table, of class "Latex" (where the
  print method uses writeLines()).

`Details`

Note that necessary LaTeX packages (such as tabularx) have to
  be loaded in the preambel of the corresponding .tex or .Rnw file.

`References`

see simsalapar-package.

`See Also`

toLatex() where it is used to create
  a LaTeX table.

`Examples`

Run this codeftab <- ftable(Titanic, row.vars = 1:2)
fftab <- fftable(ftab)
tlist <- tablines(fftab)

wrapLaTable(structure(tlist$body, head = tlist$head), align = tlist$align,
            caption="The Titanic data set.", label="tab:titanic")
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