Question

I am generating an automatically generated periodical report with Sweave. In order to create a nice header I use the fancyhdr package which works really well so far. Now, since my report is periodical I want to change the header dynamically without passing an argument to the function. That’s why I wrote a little R function that just checks which period is the latest.
Based on this a Header String is generated in R.

Long story short, I know that there is \today in LaTeX but I need to use the specific information coming from R, not just the date.

Here’s my code:

   \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 \pagestyle{fancy}

\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{%
\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\bfseries\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\rightmark{
<<>>=
print(TexHeader)@
}}
\fancyhead[RE]{\bfseries\leftmark}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}}

which causes the following error:

Package Fancyhdr Warning: \fancyhead's `E' option without twoside option is use
less on input line 23.

This is exactly the line where my TexHeader is placed.

Answer 1

For one-sided documents you can use \fancyhead[L]{...} and \fancyhead[R]{...}.

Furthermore, in this case, it’s better to use <<results=tex, echo=FALSE>>=.
Here’s an example:

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{%
\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries\thepage}
\fancyhead[L]{\rightmark{%
<<results=tex, echo=FALSE>>=
TexHeader <- format(Sys.time(), "%c")
cat(TexHeader)
@
}}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.5pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\addtolength{\headheight}{0.5pt}
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}}

\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}