Formatting like R in Latex document

Question

I'm an extreme beginner. I would like to write the names of R packages like "lavaan" in the screenshot attached, but I really don't know how to achieve that. Can anyone help? I would only format one word at a time like this.

Thank you so much! Do you think there's a way to automatically format just like R code? — Chiara Pellico, Aug 23 '22 at 17:53
Welcome to TeX.SE. Please clarify what you mean by "a way to automatically format just like R code". — Mico, Aug 23 '22 at 18:00
sorry I do not understand your question. LaTeX has to be told which font to use. Just as in R markdown you must have marked lavaan in some way, it did not automatically become monospaced. — David Carlisle, Aug 23 '22 at 18:30
If you're going to use a particular name like that a lot in your document, then in the preamble you could include a macro for it: \newcommand{\lavaan}{\texttt{lavaan}}. — murray, Aug 23 '22 at 19:29
@murray that is what I meant! Thank you so much, this will save me some amount of time. — Chiara Pellico, Aug 24 '22 at 18:01

Fran · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-24T08:47:27.287

This list the packages of a R session automatically, with the required format:

test.Rnw in Rstudio (or test.Rtex in Overleaf):

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
<<foo,echo=F>>=
library(xtable)   # loaded only for test
library(ggplot2)  # loaded only for test
@
\subsection*{A hard R work}
<<morefoo,echo=T>>=
2+3
@
\subsection*{Materials and Methods}
<<info,echo=F>>=
a <- knitr::combine_words(.packages(), 
before = "\texttt{", after ="}")
@
For this hard work we used the 
\Sexpr{sessionInfo()$R.version$version.string} 
with  the  packages \Sexpr{a}.
\end{document}

Formatting like R in Latex document

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