Thanks Duncan,
Dropping the extra columns might be the way forward. I'm sure I can work
out how to embed latex into a markdown document ;-)
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 25/11/2014 3:12 PM, Tom Wright wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> This problem has me stumped so I thought I'd ask the experts. I'm trying
>> to create a pretty summary table of some data (which patients have had
>> what tests at what times). Ideally I'd like to knitr this into a pretty
>> PDF for presentation.
>> If anyone has pointers I'll be grateful.
>>
>> require(tables)
>> require(reshape2)
>>
>> data<-data.frame('ID'=paste0('pat',c(rep(1,8),rep(2,8))),
>> 'Time'=c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4),
>> 'Eye'=rep(c('OS','OS','OD','OD'),4),
>> 'Measure'=rep(c('Height','Weight'),8))
>>
>> tabular(Measure~factor(ID)*factor(Time)*factor(Eye),data)
>> #All levels of Time are repeated for all IDs, I'd prefer to just show
>> the relevant times.
>>
>
> You can drop certain rows of the table. See the last example in
> ?tabular. (It's possible to do logical indexing, but a little harder. I
> think the vignette has an example of this...)
>
> You can use latex() on the results, and display them in a knitr document.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>> tabular(Measure~factor(ID)*Time*factor(Eye),data)
>> #Time is getting collapsed by ID
>>
>> data$value=1
>> dcast(data,Measure~ID+Time+Eye)
>> #close but not very pretty
>>
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