latexTabular function

Convert a Data Frame or Matrix to a LaTeX Tabular

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

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, center=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

• x: a matrix or data frame, or a vector that is automatically converted to a matrix
• headings: a vector of character strings specifying column headings for latexTabular , defaulting to x's colnames. To make multi-line headers use the newline character inside elements of headings.
• 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 and table entries 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
• center: set to TRUE to enclose the tabular in a LaTeX center environment
• ...: if present, x is run through format.df with those extra arguments

Returns

a character string containing LaTeX markup

Author(s)

Frank E. Harrell, Jr.,

Department of Biostatistics,

Vanderbilt University,

fh@fharrell.com

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)   # a character string with LaTeX markup