R help - Jun 2004 - printing tabular data nicely

Hi R-heplers,

I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to 
files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. 
Is there a way to do this?

I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste.  But I am not sure of a good 
combination of these in order to get a nice looking table of information.

Any ideas?  I guess I want (almost) publication ready output, just like 
you get for "plot"...

(I *don't* want to print to the console, btw)

Thx again.
W

wwsprague at ucdavis.edu wrote:
> Hi R-heplers,
> 
> I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to 
> files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. Is 
> there a way to do this?
> 
> I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste.  But I am not sure of a good 
> combination of these in order to get a nice looking table of information.
> 
> Any ideas?  I guess I want (almost) publication ready output, just like 
> you get for "plot"...
> 
> (I *don't* want to print to the console, btw)
> 
> Thx again.
> W
> 
Take a look at the xtable package. I'm not sure if you can get xtable to 
print directly to a file. If not you can use xtable in conjunction with 
?sink.

--sundar

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:19:26 -0700, wwsprague at ucdavis.edu wrote :
>Hi R-heplers,
>
>I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to 
>files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. 
>Is there a way to do this?
>
>I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste.  But I am not sure of a good 
>combination of these in order to get a nice looking table of information.
>
>Any ideas?  I guess I want (almost) publication ready output, just like 
>you get for "plot"...
>
>(I *don't* want to print to the console, btw)
As Sundar said, xtable is probably what you want.  You may also
benefit from the fairly new "addmargins" function.

Duncan Murdoch

Hi,
If you choose to use LaTeX and xtable, you can also enhance the visual
presentation
of the output tables using the booktab LaTeX package. Have a look at:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~srg/softwaretools/document/start/booktabs.pdf

You can change the horizontal line tags \hline to \toprule, \midrule,
and \bottomrule, at your discretion. 
There was also a recent thread about rownames quirks with xtable:

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/05/0678.html


marcus


>>> Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com> 4/06/2004 7:06:14 AM
>>>
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:19:26 -0700, wwsprague at ucdavis.edu wrote :
>Hi R-heplers,
>
>I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to 
>files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers.
>Is there a way to do this?
>
>I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste.  But I am not sure of a
good 
>combination of these in order to get a nice looking table of
information.
>
>Any ideas?  I guess I want (almost) publication ready output, just
like 
>you get for "plot"...
>
>(I *don't* want to print to the console, btw)
As Sundar said, xtable is probably what you want.  You may also
benefit from the fairly new "addmargins" function.

Duncan Murdoch

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