Hello, John
For my workflow, I generally use the minimum from xtable and do the formatting in org-mode using the :post parameter to call another lisp code block. That said, as Chuck said, you can go a long way with xtable. In my attic, I found the following code where I take only the core data from xtable and do formatting in org-mode. This code may be a little extravagant on the latex side but, it shows the possibilities. HTH, Jeremie #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{booktabs} #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{array} #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{setspace} #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{dcolumn} #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{array} #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{setspace} #+LATEX_HEADER:\usepackage{longtable,tabularx,ltablex} #+LATEX_HEADER:\usepackage{siunitx} #+LATEX_HEADER:\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttablex} #+Name: add-table-env #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var table="TABLE" notes="NOTES" caption="CAPTION" :results silent :exports none (replace-regexp-in-string "\\\\begin{tabular}.*\\S.*\\toprule\\|\\\\end{tabular}" "" (format "\\scriptsize{ \\begin{center} \\begin{TableNotes}\\footnotesize \\item[\\hspace{-\\fontdimen2\\font}] %s \\end{TableNotes} \\begin{ThreePartTable} \\sisetup{table-format=-2.3, table-space-text-post=***, table-number-alignment=center} \\keepXColumns \\begin{tabularx}{\\textwidth}{l *{3}{D..{5.3}}} \\caption{%s} \\\\ \\toprule \\toprule \\multicolumn{1}{c}{colnum 1} &\\multicolumn{1}{c}{colnum 2} \\\\ \\cmidrule(lr){1-1} \\cmidrule(lr){2-2} %s \\insertTableNotes \\end{tabularx} \\end{ThreePartTable} \\end{center} } \\pagebreak " notes caption table)) #+END_SRC #+begin_src R :session foo :results output latex :post add-table-env(*this*, "Some note", "A caption" ) :exports results library(tibble) library(xtable) tmp <- tibble(x=1:5, y=x/pi) print.xtable(xtable(tmp), include.colnames=FALSE,include.rownames=FALSE,floating=FALSE, comment = FALSE,dcolumn=TRUE,booktabs=TRUE ,sanitize.text.function = function(x) { x[x=="NA"] <-"" x}) #+end_src