title: Sweave xtable: how to position tables between text?
body: <p>I have a number of tables with text around them describing them.  Something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>This table shows blah blah...
  
  &lt;&lt;echo=FALSE, results=tex&gt;&gt;=
  print(
      xtable(x,
          caption = "blah", label = "tab:four", table.placement = "tbp", caption.placement = "top")
    , size = "small", table.placement="ht")
  @
  
  This table shows blah blah...
  
  &lt;&lt;echo=FALSE, results=tex&gt;&gt;=
  print(
      xtable(x,
          caption = "blah", label = "tab:five", table.placement = "tbp", caption.placement = "top")
    , size = "small", table.placement="ht")
  @
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want all my descriptive text to be in line with the tables so that they follow in the sequence that I am writing them.  But around the end of a page, some tables move off onto the next page and the descriptive text is just free floating.  Is there some particular <code>table.placement</code> command that will ensure that everything stays the way that it is written?</p>