On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Marius Hofert <m_hof...@web.de> wrote: > Thanks, John, I did. > > Here is an update [not all problems are solved; can they be?]: > > Consider: > > library(xtable) > mat <- matrix(c(1,NA,3,100,10012.23423,4), ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE) > print(xtable(mat, digits = 1), floating = FALSE, only.contents = TRUE, > include.rownames = FALSE, include.colnames = FALSE, hline.after = NULL) > > With this one obtains a clean output of the rows (maybe someone knows how to > suppress the "% latex table generated..." that is displayed). > However, as you can see from the output, the "&" symbols are not vertically > aligned (that would be quite helpful in reading the table in a source file). > This is even worse if you have row names of different lengths... > If you used Sweave, would you still need to read the table code in a source file? Regards Liviu
> So my questions (2) and (3) are solved, but (1) remains. Is there any way to > (maybe) first format the matrix entries to get the right alignment in > xtable()? > > Cheers, > > Marius > > On 2010-12-30, at 21:29 , John Kane wrote: > >> Have a look at xtable. >> >> --- On Thu, 12/30/10, Marius Hofert <m_hof...@web.de> wrote: >> >>> From: Marius Hofert <m_hof...@web.de> >>> Subject: [R] latex() etc.: How to nicely format a matrix for a LaTeX >>> document? >>> To: "Help R" <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch> >>> Received: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 11:50 AM >>> Dear (T)eXpeRts, >>> >>> I try to create a LaTeX table from an R matrix for the >>> first time. I am not sure what the "best" approach is, I >>> just read about latex() from Hmisc (toLatex() didn't work). >>> >>> Consider the following minimal example: >>> >>> library(Hmisc) >>> mat <- matrix(c(1,NA,3,100,10000,4), ncol = 3, byrow = >>> TRUE) >>> latex(mat, file = "", booktabs = TRUE, numeric.dollar = >>> FALSE, table.env = FALSE) >>> >>> I am only interested in the part between \midrule and >>> \bottomrule [I couldn't figure out how to remove the tabular >>> environment]. It looks like this: >>> >>> 1&&3\tabularnewline >>> 100&10000&4\tabularnewline >>> >>> My questions/problems are: >>> >>> (1) if there are NA's, you can see that the output is not >>> aligned according to the &-symbols. That makes it hard >>> to read in a LaTeX *source* file. How can I get something >>> like: >>> 1& >>> &3\tabularnewline >>> 100&10000&4\tabularnewline >>> >>> (2) it would even be nicer to read if the output was like >>> this: >>> 1 & & 3 >>> \tabularnewline >>> 100 & 10000 & 4 \tabularnewline >>> How can I achieve this? >>> >>> (3) is there another package/function to get output like >>> this more easily? I wrote a one-liner which formats the >>> lines separately, but it would be nice to have the columns >>> aligned as given in (2). I believe it is most helpful to >>> have the output in a form which is readable in a *source* >>> file (i.e., .tex), since the headers/footers from tabular >>> [or tabularx etc.] are often easy to put in the document. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Marius >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org >>> mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, >>> reproducible code. >>> >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
