latextable {miscFuncs}

latextable function

Description

A very useful function to create a LaTeX table from a matrix. Rounds numeric entries and also replaces small numbers with standard index form equivalents.

Usage

latextable(
  x,
  digits = 3,
  scientific = -3,
  colnames = NULL,
  rownames = NULL,
  caption = NULL,
  narep = " ",
  laststr = "",
  intable = TRUE,
  manualalign = NULL,
  file = "",
  ...
)

Arguments

x

a matrix, or object that can be coerced to a matrix. x can include mixed character and numeric entries.

digits

see help file for format

scientific

see help file for format

colnames

optional column names set to NULL (default) to automatically use column names of x. NOTE! if rownames is not NULL present, colnames must include an entry for the rownames i.e. it should be a vector of length the number of columns of x plus 1.

rownames

optional row names set to NULL (default) to automatically use row names of x

caption

optional caption, not normally used

narep

string giving replacement for NA entries in the matrix

laststr

string to write at end, eg note the double backslash!!

intable

output in a table environment?

manualalign

manual align string e.g. 'ccc' or 'l|ccc'

file

connection to write to, default is ” which writes to the console; see ?write for further details

...

additional arguments passed to format

Details

To get a backslash to appear, use a double backslash

Just copy and paste the results into your LaTeX document.

Value

prints the LaTeX table to screen, so it can be copied into reports

Examples

latextable(as.data.frame(matrix(1:4,2,2)))