latexTabular {Hmisc}R Documentation

Convert a Data Frame or Matrix to a LaTeX Tabular

Description

latexTabular creates a character vector representing a matrix or data frame in a simple tabular environment.

Usage

latexTabular(x, headings=colnames(x),
             align =paste(rep('c',ncol(x)),collapse=''),
             halign=paste(rep('c',ncol(x)),collapse=''),
             helvetica=TRUE, translate=TRUE, hline=0, ...)

Arguments

x

a matrix or data frame

headings

a vector of character strings specifying column headings for latexTabular, defaulting to x's colnames

align

a character strings specifying column alignments for latexTabular, defaulting to paste(rep('c',ncol(x)),collapse='') to center. You may specify align='c|c' and other LaTeX tabular formatting.

halign

a character strings specifying alignment for column headings, defaulting to centered.

helvetica

set to FALSE to use default LaTeX font in latexTabular instead of helvetica.

translate

set to FALSE if column headings are already in LaTeX format, otherwise latexTabular will run them through latexTranslate

hline

set to 1 to put hline after heading, 2 to also put hlines before and after heading and at table end

...

if present, x is run through format.df with those extra arguments

Value

a character string containing LaTeX markup

Author(s)

Frank E. Harrell, Jr.,
Department of Biostatistics,
Vanderbilt University,
f.harrell@vanderbilt.edu

See Also

latex.default, format.df

Examples

x <- matrix(1:6, nrow=2, dimnames=list(c('a','b'),c('c','d','this that')))
latexTabular(x)   # creates x.tex in working directory

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