R help - Oct 2020 - Package recommendations for outputting table with cell formatting

R 4.0.2
OS X

Colleagues

I have the unfortunate need to create a large number of tables (destined for a
Word document).  I need to color cells depending on the contents, e.g., blue if
the value is < 0.5, red if the value is > 1.5.
If the output went initially to Excel, that would work; outputting directly to
Word would be even better.
I expect that several packages can accomplish this.  I am looking for
recommendations as to which package (or combination) of packages is best to
accomplish this.

Dennis

Dennis Fisher MD
P < (The "P Less Than" Company)
Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
www.PLessThan.com

Will this need to be done many times? If not, it might be just as easy
to apply conditional formatting to cells after they're already in
Excel.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:28 PM Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com>
wrote:
>
> R 4.0.2
> OS X
>
> Colleagues
>
> I have the unfortunate need to create a large number of tables (destined
for a Word document).  I need to color cells depending on the contents, e.g.,
blue if the value is < 0.5, red if the value is > 1.5.
> If the output went initially to Excel, that would work; outputting directly
to Word would be even better.
> I expect that several packages can accomplish this.  I am looking for
recommendations as to which package (or combination) of packages is best to
accomplish this.
>
> Dennis
>
> Dennis Fisher MD
> P < (The "P Less Than" Company)
> Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
> www.PLessThan.com
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.


-- 
Patrick S. Malone, Ph.D., Malone Quantitative
NEW Service Models: http://malonequantitative.com

He/Him/His

Patrick

Doing this in Excel is certainly an option.  But I would like to learn how to do
it in R.

Dennis

Dennis Fisher MD
P < (The "P Less Than" Company)
Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
www.PLessThan.com



> On Oct 23, 2020, at 6:15 PM, Patrick (Malone Quantitative) <malone at
malonequantitative.com> wrote:
> 
> Will this need to be done many times? If not, it might be just as easy
> to apply conditional formatting to cells after they're already in
> Excel.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:28 PM Dennis Fisher <fisher at
plessthan.com> wrote:
>> 
>> R 4.0.2
>> OS X
>> 
>> Colleagues
>> 
>> I have the unfortunate need to create a large number of tables
(destined for a Word document).  I need to color cells depending on the
contents, e.g., blue if the value is < 0.5, red if the value is > 1.5.
>> If the output went initially to Excel, that would work; outputting
directly to Word would be even better.
>> I expect that several packages can accomplish this.  I am looking for
recommendations as to which package (or combination) of packages is best to
accomplish this.
>> 
>> Dennis
>> 
>> Dennis Fisher MD
>> P < (The "P Less Than" Company)
>> Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
>> www.PLessThan.com
>> 
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Patrick S. Malone, Ph.D., Malone Quantitative
> NEW Service Models: http://malonequantitative.com
> 
> He/Him/His

I would go straight to Word using flextable (table layout) and officer
(Word-specific formatting) within an rmarkdown document (e.g. bookdown::
word_document2 to manage overall structure and generate captions). Officer
without rmarkdown may be able to generate true Word captions with bookmarks to
cross-reference, but it is more tedious to set up than rmarkdown.

On October 23, 2020 5:28:26 PM PDT, Dennis Fisher <fisher at
plessthan.com> wrote:
>R 4.0.2
>OS X
>
>Colleagues
>
>I have the unfortunate need to create a large number of tables
>(destined for a Word document).  I need to color cells depending on the
>contents, e.g., blue if the value is < 0.5, red if the value is > 1.5.
>
>If the output went initially to Excel, that would work; outputting
>directly to Word would be even better.
>I expect that several packages can accomplish this.  I am looking for
>recommendations as to which package (or combination) of packages is
>best to accomplish this.
>
>Dennis
>
>Dennis Fisher MD
>P < (The "P Less Than" Company)
>Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
>www.PLessThan.com
>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at 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.
-- 
Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

This comes with no guarantee since i have only tried one or two packages
mentioned but have a look at <a href="
https://rfortherestofus.com/2019/11/how-to-make-beautiful-tables-in-r/">
R
Tables</a>.


On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 20:28, Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com>
wrote:
> R 4.0.2
> OS X
>
> Colleagues
>
> I have the unfortunate need to create a large number of tables (destined
> for a Word document).  I need to color cells depending on the contents,
> e.g., blue if the value is < 0.5, red if the value is > 1.5.
> If the output went initially to Excel, that would work; outputting
> directly to Word would be even better.
> I expect that several packages can accomplish this.  I am looking for
> recommendations as to which package (or combination) of packages is best to
> accomplish this.
>
> Dennis
>
> Dennis Fisher MD
> P < (The "P Less Than" Company)
> Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
> www.PLessThan.com
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.
>

-- 
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

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To John and everyone else,

Please add Hmisc::latex to your  how-to-make-beautiful-tables-in-r document.
We first included latex() in S in 1995, and it is still actively
maintained and improved.

Rich

Here are the first few lines of ?latex

Convert an S object to LaTeX, and Related Utilities

Description:

     ?latex? converts its argument to a ?.tex? file appropriate for
     inclusion in a LaTeX2e document.  ?latex? is a generic function
     that calls one of ?latex.default?, ?latex.function?, ?latex.list?.

     ?latex.default? does appropriate rounding and decimal alignment
     and produces a file containing a LaTeX tabular environment to
     print the matrix or data.frame ?x? as a table.

     ?latex.function? prepares an S function for printing by issuing
     ?sed? commands that are similar to those in the ?S.to.latex?
     procedure in the ?s.to.latex? package (Chambers and Hastie, 1993).
     ?latex.function? can also produce ?verbatim? output or output that
     works with the ?Sweavel? LaTeX style at <URL:
     http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SweaveTemplate>.


On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:11 PM John Kane <jrkrideau at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> This comes with no guarantee since i have only tried one or two packages
> mentioned but have a look at <a href="
>
https://rfortherestofus.com/2019/11/how-to-make-beautiful-tables-in-r/">
R
> Tables</a>.
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 20:28, Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com>
wrote:
>
> > R 4.0.2
> > OS X
> >
> > Colleagues
> >
> > I have the unfortunate need to create a large number of tables
(destined
> > for a Word document).  I need to color cells depending on the
contents,
> > e.g., blue if the value is < 0.5, red if the value is > 1.5.
> > If the output went initially to Excel, that would work; outputting
> > directly to Word would be even better.
> > I expect that several packages can accomplish this.  I am looking for
> > recommendations as to which package (or combination) of packages is
best to
> > accomplish this.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > Dennis Fisher MD
> > P < (The "P Less Than" Company)
> > Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784)
> > www.PLessThan.com
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at 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.
> >
>
>
> --
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.