General ⇒ Automatically break rows in a table

[tobzter]

Hi all!

I searched the Internet for quite some time, but I haven't found anything that could help me. Stil, to me it seems that this problem should have been solved many times so far. So before I try to code myself I wanted to ask you guys for help.

Is there a possibility to break tabular rows automatically when the end of the page is reached? The table rows would be continued in the same order the next line.

Maybe an example clarifies my point:

I have this table as Software Output from R:

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% latex table generated in R 2.7.1 by xtable 1.5-2 package
% Wed Sep 10 14:27:09 2008
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr}
  \hline
 & ARG & AUS & AUT & BHR & BEL & BRA & CAN & CHL & CHN & HRV & CZE & EGY & FRA & DEU & GRC & HKG & HUN & IND & IDN & ISR & ITA & JPN & KAZ & KEN & KOR & KWT & LBN & MUS & MAR & NZL & NGA & NOR & OMN & PAK & PER & PHL & POL & PRT & QAT & ROM & RUS & SGP & SVN & ZAF & ESP & LKA & SWE & CHE & THA & TUN & TUR & UKR & ARE & GBR & USA \\
  \hline
1 & 0.46 & 0.29 & 0.39 &  & 0.27 & 0.45 & 0.38 & 0.42 & 0.05 & 0.40 & 0.75 & 0.39 & 0.27 & 0.20 & $-$0.50 & 0.42 & $-$0.06 & 0.69 & 0.55 & 0.24 & 0.05 & 0.65 &  & $-$0.40 & 0.65 &  & $-$0.80 & 0.40 & 0.40 & 0.56 & $-$1.00 & 0.26 &  & 0.10 & 0.86 & 0.70 & 0.12 & 0.00 &  &  & $-$0.01 & 0.36 & 0.40 & 0.77 & 0.22 & 0.32 & 0.06 & 0.14 & 0.46 & 1.00 & 0.59 &  &  & 0.46 & $-$0.14 \\
   \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

Of course the row is way to large to be displayed.. even in landscape mode..

But as there are only two rows, the best thing to solve the problem seems to me to just break the rows when the columns hit the border e.g.

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% latex table generated in R 2.7.1 by xtable 1.5-2 package
% Wed Sep 10 14:27:09 2008
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr}
  \hline
 & ARG & AUS & AUT & BHR & BEL & BRA & CAN & CHL & CHN & HRV & CZE & EGY & FRA & DEU & GRC & HKG & HUN & IND & IDN & ISR & ITA \\ 
  \hline
1 & 0.46 & 0.29 & 0.39 &  & 0.27 & 0.45 & 0.38 & 0.42 & 0.05 & 0.40 & 0.75 & 0.39 & 0.27 & 0.20 & $-$0.50 & 0.42 & $-$0.06 & 0.69 & 0.55 \\

&JPN & KAZ & KEN & KOR & KWT & LBN & MUS & MAR & NZL & NGA & NOR & OMN & PAK & PER & PHL & POL & PRT & QAT & ROM & RUS & SGP & SVN & ZAF & ESP & LKA & SWE & CHE & THA & TUN & TUR & UKR & ARE & GBR & USA \\
& 0.24 & 0.05 & 0.65 &  & $-$0.40 & 0.65 &  & $-$0.80 & 0.40 & 0.40 & 0.56 & $-$1.00 & 0.26 &  & 0.10 & 0.86 & 0.70 & 0.12 & 0.00 &  &  & $-$0.01 & 0.36 & 0.40 & 0.77 & 0.22 & 0.32 & 0.06 & 0.14 & 0.46 & 1.00 & 0.59 &  &  & 0.46 & $-$0.14 \\
   \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

(don't try to compile it, I didn't test.. just for illustration)

thx
tobi