latexTabular {Hmisc}

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, 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

Value

a character string containing LaTeX markup

Author(s)

Frank E. Harrell, Jr.,
Department of Biostatistics,
Vanderbilt University,
[e-mail]

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