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I have the following piece of R-markdown / latex / minipage combo code.

What I am trying to do is get the xtable output to display within the minipage, along with other text paragraphs surrounding it. While my second xtable displays fine with markdown, the first one just repeats the code segment.

Any idea how I can get it to work?

---

output:

  pdf_document: default

header-includes:

- usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}

- usepackage{ragged2e}

- usepackage{fancyhdr}

- pagestyle{fancy}

- lhead{textsc{blah blah}}

- rhead{textsc{bfseries large blah blah}}

- renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0.4pt}

- lfoot{blah blah}

- fancypagestyle{plain}{pagestyle{fancy}}

---

fcolorbox{Fuchsia}{Fuchsia}{begin{minipage}{46.5em}centeringtextbf{largecolor{white}ABOUT THIS TEST}end{minipage}}

offinterlineskip

fbox{begin{minipage}[t]{46.5em}

vspace*{0.3cm}centeringtextbf{METHODOLOGY}vspace*{0.3cm}



justify blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah vspace*{0.3cm}



justify blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah vspace*{0.3cm}



<<echo=FALSE, results=tex>>=

library(xtable) 

print(xtable(head(mtcars)), floating = FALSE, include.rownames = FALSE) 

@ 

end{minipage}}



bigskip



**Table 1.** Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah Blah



```{r, xtable, results = 'asis', echo=FALSE, eval=TRUE, message=FALSE}

library(xtable)

x <- head(mtcars)

print(

  xtable(x, caption = 'Blah Blah'), caption.placement = 'top',

  include.colnames = FALSE, comment = FALSE

  )

```

You cannot use result=tex option of Sweave in a R chunk in R markdown with uses the knitr syntax, but more important, you cannot use the R chunk syntax for noweb (.Rnw) files. Thas is, some like:

<<name,results='asis', option, option, ...>>= 

2+2 

@

Is still wrong, even if the chunk is inside the inside a LaTeX environment. Instead you must use always the R markdown syntax:

```{r name, results='asis', option, option, ...}

2+2

```  

In the MWE below there are many others changes in LaTeX, R and markdown irrelevants for the question, to simplify the example (removing headers,etc.) and the code (tcolorboxinstead of a minipage,etc.) or style suggestions (booktabsfor table rules,etc.}. The result:

---

header-includes:

- usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

- usepackage{caption}

- usepackage{parskip}

- usepackage{booktabs}

output:

  pdf_document: default

---



begin{tcolorbox}[colbacktitle=blue!85!red!60, 

fonttitle=bfseriessffamilycentering, 

colback=green!05,boxsep=1mm,arc=0mm,boxrule=1pt, 

title=ABOUT THIS TEST]parskip1em



subsection*{centering METHODOLOGY}



Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.



Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.



centering

captionof{table}{The head of mtcars}



```{r table, echo=F,results="asis"}

library(xtable) 

x <- head(mtcars)

print(xtable(x, digits=c(0,1,0,0,0,2,2,2,0,0,0,0),align="lccccccccccc"),

floating = F, include.rownames = T,booktabs=T) 

```

end{tcolorbox}



```{r xtable, results = 'asis', echo=F}

print(xtable(x, caption="Blah blah Blah blah blah Blah blah blah."),

caption.placement = 'top',  include.colnames = F, comment = F )

```