[R] xtable "beta" testing wanted

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Charles,

This looks great, I'll try it out later today.

Any chance that more automated multicolumn headers will be added in a future 
version? I know you can do it using the add.to.row argument, but it would be 
great to have an automated way using something like cgroup and n.cgroup in 
Hmisc:latex.

Best,
Ista
On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 09:40:28 AM Charles Roosen wrote:
> Dear R-users,
> 
> I've enhanced the "xtable" package, adding numerous features that have been
> requested by users.  The changes are listed below.
> 
> The objective throughout has been to avoid any breaking changes.  However,
> as "xtable" is widely used and is a dependency of many packages I'd like to
> have others try it out before I post it to CRAN.  Both bug reports and
> design feedback is welcomed.
> 
> In particular, I'd like to have package authors that have written "xtable"
> methods try it out.
> 
> If you are interested and willing, you can get the source from R-Forge via
> SVN:
> 
>   svn checkout svn://scm.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/xtable/
> 
> I can also send source and Windows binary versions to anyone that is
> interested.
> 
> Feedback can be sent to me or posted in the issue tracking system on
> R-Forge:
> 
>       http://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?group_id=1228
> 
> Note that the R-Forge build system is currently being updated, so the option
> of installing directly from R-Forge won't get the latest version of the
> package.
> 
> Thanks,
> Charlie Roosen
> xtable maintainer
> 
> --------------
> 
> NEWS
> 
> 1.7-0 (NOT YET RELEASED)
>   * Added some vectorization code to improve performance.
>   * Let "caption" be length 2, in which case the second value is
>     the short caption used when creating a list of tables.
>   * Added "toLatex" method.
>   * Included "print.xtable" in the exported methods in the NAMESPACE file.
>   * Added "print.results" argument to "print" that can be used to
>     suppress the printing.
>   * Added "format.args" argument to "print" that can be used to
>     pass additional arguments such as "big.marks" to "formatC()".
>   * Added "rotate.colnames" and "rotate.rownames" arguments to
>     "print.xtable".
>   * Added "booktabs" argument to use the "\toprule", "\midrule", and
>     "\bottomrule" tags from the Latex "booktabs" package rather than
> 	using "\hline" for all horizontal lines.
>   * Added "scalebox" argument to include a "\scalebox" clause around
>     the tabular environment with the specified value used as the
>     scaling factor.
>   * Changed the "print.xtable()" arguments to use "getOption()"
>     to check the options for a default value.  This was suggested
> 	since "print.xtable()" has a lot of arguments that the user
> 	will typically leave unchanged between tables.
>   * Added an "is.null()" check on the "table.placement" argument.
>   * Added examples using the new arguments to the vignette.
> 
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