Can't say this appeals to me, but sprintf would make a difference: apply( mat,1, function(x) { x[is.na(x)] <-"" cat(paste(sprintf("%16s",x)),"\n") })
On June 12, 2021 9:24:51 AM PDT, Jeremie Juste <jeremieju...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to print a razor thin front-end using just text matrices and >the command prompt. > >I admit that it is a bit crazy, it seems to do the job and is very >quick >to implement... Except that I don't know of to fix the layout. > >I'm just seeking to map column names to a standard domain in an >interactive way. > >For instance, at one iteration, the following matrix is produced: > >mat <- structure(c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, >NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", >"h", "i", "j", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, >NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "n_missing:", "n_unique:", "freq:", >NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "0", "10", NA, "a", "1", NA, NA, >NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "b", "1", NA, NA, "best match: [1]:", >NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, "c", "1", NA, NA, "foo", NA, NA, NA, NA, >NA, "d", "1", NA, NA, NA, NA, NA), .Dim = c(10L, 10L)) > > >which I represent in the console using the following command > > > apply( > mat,1, > function(x) { > x[is.na(x)] <-"" > cat(x,"\n") > }) > >Do you have any suggestion for how can I have better control on the >print layout of the matrix so that I can fix the width of each cell? > >Best regards, -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.