supress comments from xtable printing in latex about knitr-book HOT 12 CLOSED

I know this is an old thread but I use the following.

print(xtable(tablename), comment = FALSE)

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it happens to me as well, and I have emailed the xtable package author a few days ago to provide an option to suppress the comments, but have not got an response yet

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I don't know if the xtable package author will respond to you. I would suggest contacting the maintainer listed on the CRAN page. But if you have time the best would be to make a patch and post it here http://xtable.r-forge.r-project.org/. There were a few user-contributed patches that were incorporated into the most recent release that were submitted there. If you have several suggested changes for xtable, it seems that the maintainers prefer that you be a committer. See here:
http://r-forge.r-project.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=4432&forum_id=3924&group_id=1228

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I've written to Charles Rosen, the maintainer address. Here's my proposed change: cboettig/sandbox@a2c3215
Adds an option to suppress the printing. I'm now using this patch with my own manuscript, hope xtable will consider it.

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Thanks! I remember when he first asked in r-help where to host this package, I recommended GIT + GitHub, but later he still made the unfortunate choice to go to SVN + R-Forge, and I just do not want to touch SVN...

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cboettig, did you hear back from Rosen on this? Any news?

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Nope, never heard back; still using my own modified copy of xtable to
deal with this...

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak
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cboettig, did you hear back from Rosen on this? Any news?

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Carl Boettiger
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ok. if you want to try something else, you could post your patch here: http://xtable.r-forge.r-project.org/

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This project has not been active for 5 months. I feel the maintainer might be changed again... I hope next time it can come to Github :)

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The change has been made in xtable 1.7-1 on R-Forge, but it was not released to CRAN.

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I just ran into this issue today. As an alternative to the re-write that @cboettig provided, I have a little wrapper that works for me:

tyxtable <- function(x, trim = 2) {
tmp <- textConnection(capture.output(xtable(x), file = NULL))
tmp <- readLines(tmp)
tmp <- tmp[-1:(-1 * trim)]
writeLines(tmp)
}

I haven't used xtable very much yet, so I'm sure this will miss some (many?) cases. This only writes the output to stdout, it doesn't return anything, so it's only useful in a knitr document I think.

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@plantarum For simple tables, you can try knitr::kable(data)

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