I could get something close to what you asked using a little hack, emulating a table using an array based on your two matrices :
test <- matrix(rpois(18,10),ncol=9,nrow=2) colnames(test) <- paste("Dis",1:9,sep="") rownames(test) <- c("2010","2020") test2 <- matrix(rpois(18,10),ncol=9,nrow=2) colnames(test2) <- paste("Dis",1:9,sep="") rownames(test2) <- c("2010","2020") tmp <- array(cbind(test,test2), dim=c(2,9,2), dimnames=list(rownames(test),colnames(test),c("Test","Test2"))) ftable(as.table(tmp)) Cheers Joris On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:42 PM, stefan.d...@gmail.com <stefan.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > an hopefully quick table question. > > I have the following data: > Two objects that are 2*9 matrix with nine column names (Dis1, ..., > Dis9) and the row names (2010,2020). The content are frequencies > (numeric). > > In want to create a table that is along the lines of > ftable(UCBAdmissions) and should looks like this: > Dis1 | ...| Dis9 > 2010|2020|....|2010|2020 > (first row,first column is the value of Dis1 in 2010 from first > object)| (first row,second column is the value of Dis1 in 2020 from > first object)| .... > (second row,first column is the value of Dis1 in 2010 from second > object)| (first row,second column is the value of Dis1 in 2020 from > second object)| .... > and so on > > So basically what ftable does. But I do not understand how I can turn > my two matrices (which already contain the frequencies) into the > appropriate table object (if thats the way to go). > > Thanks and best, > Stefan > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ 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.