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I have been experimenting with the MonteCarlo package in R for a project. After using the maketable function, I was given the following code to generate a LaTex table with the Monte Carlo simulation's results.

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\resizebox{ 1 \textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{ rrrrrrrrr }
\hline\hline\\\\
scale & n/loc &  & 0 & 0.2 & 0.4 & 0.6 & 0.8 & 1 \\ 
 &  &  &  &  &  &  &  &  \\ 
\multirow{ 4 }{*}{ 1 } & 50 &  & 0.06 & 0.31 & 0.80 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 100 &  & 0.06 & 0.54 & 0.98 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 250 &  & 0.05 & 0.89 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 500 &  & 0.04 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 &  &  &  &  &  &  &  &  \\ 
\multirow{ 4 }{*}{ 2 } & 50 &  & 0.05 & 0.11 & 0.33 & 0.59 & 0.81 & 0.93 \\ 
 & 100 &  & 0.05 & 0.14 & 0.52 & 0.83 & 0.97 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 250 &  & 0.05 & 0.36 & 0.89 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 500 &  & 0.06 & 0.66 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
\\
\\
\hline\hline
\end{tabular}%
}
\caption{ decision  }
\end{table}

This code had numerous error messages when I try to compile it in Texstudio. Browsing around the forum, I found that by adding a \documentclass{article} and \begin{document}. command at the beginning with the appropriate \end commands at the end, a majority of the errors resolved themselves. However, I still have five errors that are popping up in the editor that are preventing compilation. Those errors are:

line 5 - Undefined control sequence. \resizebox
line 5 - Missing number, treated as zero. \resizebox { 1 \ textwidth}
line 5 - Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). \resizebox { 1 \ textwidth}
line 10 - Undefined control sequence. \multirow
line 15 - Undefined control sequence. \multirow

Any ideas about how I can resolve these errors would be highly appreciated.

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Welcome to TeX.SE. I encourage you to read a tutorial on RStudio, knitr, and Markdown, like this one: https://github.com/sahirbhatnagar/knitr-tutorial. The home of all things on knitr is here: https://yihui.name/knitr/.

First, in RStudio, you need to create a file with an .Rnw extension. This file includes your LaTeX code, and chunks of R code. Compile the file with pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX. This will execute your code chunks, the output from which will be included in a .tex file together with any LaTeX formatting instructions you may have given. The product is a pdf file that includes the output of any LaTeX code you have written together with the output of executing the R code.

All you have at the moment is a code fragment for including in a .tex file that you need to write. That file will start with \documentclass{article} (or some other class like book or report) and end with \end{document}.

Here is an example, let's call it Fledgling.Rnw from one of @Fran's great answers:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
<<mytable,echo=FALSE,results='asis'>>=
library(xtable)
a <- matrix(c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9),nrow=3)
xtable(a)
@
\end{document}

The R code chunk is placed between <<>>== and @. Here, it loads xtable. library is the equivalent of \usepackage in LaTeX. A matrix, a, is created, which is then formatted using LaTeX syntax by executing xtable. A file called Fledling.tex will be created at the conclusion of executing the R code. This is made possible using the R package, knitr. No user intervention is required. All you need is RStudio and a .Rnw file. With the .tex file created, pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX take over and compile Fledgling.tex to produce Fledgling.pdf.

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You need the graphicx package for \resizebox and the multirow package for \multirow, so this works:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\resizebox{ 1 \textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{ rrrrrrrrr }
\hline\hline\\\\
scale & n/loc &  & 0 & 0.2 & 0.4 & 0.6 & 0.8 & 1 \\ 
 &  &  &  &  &  &  &  &  \\ 
\multirow{ 4 }{*}{ 1 } & 50 &  & 0.06 & 0.31 & 0.80 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 100 &  & 0.06 & 0.54 & 0.98 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 250 &  & 0.05 & 0.89 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 500 &  & 0.04 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 &  &  &  &  &  &  &  &  \\ 
\multirow{ 4 }{*}{ 2 } & 50 &  & 0.05 & 0.11 & 0.33 & 0.59 & 0.81 & 0.93 \\ 
 & 100 &  & 0.05 & 0.14 & 0.52 & 0.83 & 0.97 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 250 &  & 0.05 & 0.36 & 0.89 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 500 &  & 0.06 & 0.66 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
\\
\\
\hline\hline
\end{tabular}%
}
\caption{ decision  }
\end{table}
\end{document}

That said, I think resizing that table is a bit pointless, so I would rather do something like this:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ rrrrrrrrr }
\toprule
scale & n/loc &  & 0 & 0.2 & 0.4 & 0.6 & 0.8 & 1 \\ \midrule
\multirow{ 4 }{*}{ 1 } & 50 &  & 0.06 & 0.31 & 0.80 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 100 &  & 0.06 & 0.54 & 0.98 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 250 &  & 0.05 & 0.89 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 500 &  & 0.04 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ \addlinespace
\multirow{ 4 }{*}{ 2 } & 50 &  & 0.05 & 0.11 & 0.33 & 0.59 & 0.81 & 0.93 \\ 
 & 100 &  & 0.05 & 0.14 & 0.52 & 0.83 & 0.97 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 250 &  & 0.05 & 0.36 & 0.89 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
 & 500 &  & 0.06 & 0.66 & 0.99 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 \\ 
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}%
\caption{ decision  }
\end{table}
\end{document}

The booktabs package provides the macros \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule and \addlinespace.

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    Obviously, if the table changes from time to time, editing the code isn't ideal. Oct 19, 2019 at 6:24

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