xtableFtable creates an object which contains information about
a flat table which can be used by print.xtableFtable to produce
a character string which when included in a document produces a nicely
formatted flat table.
For xtableFtable, an object of class
"ftable". For print.xtableFtable, an object of class
c("xtableFtable", "ftable").
caption
Character vector of length 1 or 2 containing the
table's caption or title. If length is 2, the second item is the
"short caption" used when LaTeX generates a "List of Tables". Set to
NULL to suppress the caption. Default value is NULL.
label
Character vector of length 1 containing the LaTeX label
or HTML anchor. Set to NULL to suppress the label. Default
value is NULL.
align
Character vector of length equal to the number of columns
of the resulting table, indicating the alignment of the corresponding
columns. Also, "|" may be used to produce vertical lines
between columns in LaTeX tables, but these are effectively ignored
when considering the required length of the supplied vector. If a
character vector of length one is supplied, it is split as
strsplit(align, "")[[1]] before processing. For a flat table,
the number of columns is the number of columns of data, plus the
number of row variables in the table, plus one for the row names,
even though row names are not printed.
Use "l", "r", and "c" to
denote left, right, and center alignment, respectively. Use
"p{3cm}" etc. for a LaTeX column of the specified width. For
HTML output the "p" alignment is interpreted as "l",
ignoring the width request.
If NULL all row variable labels will be left aligned,
separated from the data columns by a vertical line, and all data
columns will be right aligned. The actual length of align
depends on the value of method.
digits
Numeric vector of length equal to one (in which case it will be
replicated as necessary) or to the number of columns in the
resulting table. Since data in the table consists of
counts, the default is 0. If the value of digits is negative, the
corresponding columns are displayed in scientific format
with abs(digits) digits.
display
Character vector of length equal to the number of columns of the
resulting table, indicating the format for the corresponding columns.
These values are passed to the formatC
function. Use "d" (for integers), "f", "e",
"E", "g", "G", "fg" (for reals), or
"s" (for strings). "f" gives numbers in the usual
xxx.xxx format; "e" and "E" give
n.ddde+nn or n.dddE+nn (scientific format); "g"
and "G" put x[i] into scientific format only if it
saves space to do so. "fg" uses fixed format as "f",
but digits as number of significant digits. Note that
this can lead to quite long result strings.
If NULL all row variable names and labels will have format
"s", and all data columns will have format "d". The
actual length of display depends on the value of
method.
quote
a character string giving the set of quoting characters
for format.ftable used in print.xtableFtable; to
disable quoting altogether, use quote="".
method
string specifying how the "xtableFtable" object is
printed in the print method. Can be abbreviated. Available
methods are (see the examples in print.ftable):
"non.compact"
the default representation of an
"ftable" object.
"row.compact"
a row-compact version without empty cells
below the column labels.
"col.compact"
a column-compact version without empty cells
to the right of the row labels.
"compact"
a row- and column-compact version. This may imply
a row and a column label sharing the same cell. They are then
separated by the string lsep.
lsep
only for method = "compact", the separation string
for row and column labels.
type
Type of table to produce. Possible values for type
are "latex" or "html".
Default value is "latex" and is the only type implemented so far.
file
Name of file where the resulting code should be saved. If
file="", output is displayed on screen. Note that the
function also (invisibly) returns a character vector of the results
(which can be helpful for post-processing).
Default value is "".
append
If TRUE and file!="", code will be
appended to file instead of overwriting file.
Default value is FALSE.
floating
If TRUE and type="latex", the resulting
table will be a floating table (using, for example,
egin{table} and end{table}). See
floating.environment below.
Default value is TRUE.
floating.environment
If floating=TRUE and
type="latex", the resulting table uses the specified floating
environment. Possible values include "table", "table*",
and other floating environments defined in LaTeX packages.
Default value is "table".
table.placement
If floating=TRUE and
type="latex", the floating table will have placement given by
table.placement where table.placement must be
NULL or contain only elements of
{"h","t","b","p","!","H"}.
Default value is "ht".
caption.placement
The caption will be placed at the bottom
of the table if caption.placement is "bottom" and at
the top of the table if it equals "top".
Default value is "bottom".
caption.width
The caption will be placed in a "parbox"
of the specified width if caption.width is not NULL and
type="latex". Default value is NULL.
latex.environments
If floating=TRUE and
type="latex", the specified LaTeX environments (provided as
a character vector) will enclose the tabular environment.
Default value is "center".
tabular.environment
When type="latex", the tabular
environment that will be used.
When working with tables that extend more than one page, using
tabular.environment="longtable" with the corresponding
LaTeX package (see Fairbairns, 2005) allows one to typeset them
uniformly. Note that floating should be set to
FALSE when using the longtable environment.
Default value is "tabular".
size
A character vector that is inserted just before the
tabular environment starts. This can be used to set the font size
and a variety of other table settings. Initial backslashes are
automatically prefixed, if not supplied by user.
Default value is NULL.
hline.after
When type="latex", a vector of numbers
between -1 and nrow(x), inclusive, indicating the rows after
which a horizontal line should appear. Repeated values are
allowed. If NULL the default is to draw a line before before
starting the table, after the column variable names and labels, and
at the end of the table.
NA.string
String to be used for missing values in table
entries.
Default value is "".
only.contents
If TRUE only the rows of the
table are printed.
Default value is FALSE.
add.to.row
A list of two components. The first component (which
should be called 'pos') is a list that contains the position of rows on
which extra commands should be added at the end. The second
component (which should be called 'command') is a character vector
of the same length as the first component, which contains the command
that should be added at the end of the specified rows.
Default value is NULL, i.e. do not add commands.
sanitize.text.function
Since the table entries are counts no
sanitization is necessary. The default is as.is, which is the
function which makes no changes. This also applies to the labels for
the row and column variables since these are also part of the table
which is printed using a call to print.xtable.
sanitize.rownames.function
Like the
sanitize.text.function, but applicable to row names.
The default uses the sanitize.text.function.
sanitize.colnames.function
Like the
sanitize.text.function, but applicable to column names.
The default uses the sanitize.text.function.
math.style.negative
In a LaTeX table, if TRUE, then use
$-$ for the negative sign (as was the behavior prior to version 1.5-3).
Default value is FALSE.
math.style.exponents
In a LaTeX table, if TRUE or
"$$", then use $5 \times 10^{5}$ for 5e5. If
"ensuremath", then use ensuremath{5 \times 10^{5}}
for 5e5. If "UTF-8" or "UTF-8", then use UTF-8 to
approximate the LaTeX typsetting for 5e5.
Default value is FALSE.
html.table.attributes
In an HTML table, attributes associated
with the <TABLE> tag.
Default value is "border=1".
print.results
If TRUE, the generated table is printed to
standard output. Set this to FALSE if you will just be using
the character vector that is returned invisibly.
Default value is TRUE.
format.args
List of arguments for the formatC function.
For example, standard German number separators can be specified as
format.args=list(big.mark = "'", decimal.mark =
",")). The arguments digits and format should not be
included in this list.
Default value is NULL.
rotate.rownames
If TRUE, the row names and labels, and
column variable names are displayed vertically in LaTeX.
Default value is FALSE.
rotate.colnames
If TRUE, the column names and labels,
and row variable names are displayed vertically in LaTeX.
Default value is FALSE.
booktabs
If TRUE, the toprule, midrule and
bottomrule commands from the LaTeX "booktabs" package are used
rather than hline for the horizontal line tags.
scalebox
If not NULL, a scalebox clause will be
added around the tabular environment with the specified value used
as the scaling factor.
Default value is NULL.
width
If not NULL, the specified value is included in
parentheses between the tabular environment begin tag and the
alignment specification. This allows specification of the table
width when using tabular environments such as tabular* and
tabularx. Note that table width specification is not
supported with the tabular or longtable environments.
Default value is NULL.
comment
If TRUE, the version and timestamp comment is
included. Default value is TRUE.
timestamp
Timestamp to include in LaTeX comment. Set this
to NULL to exclude the timestamp. Default value is
date().
...
Additional arguments. (Currently ignored.)
Details
xtableFtable carries out some calculations to determine the
number of rows and columns of names and labels which will be in the
table when formatted as a flat table, which depends on the value of
method. It uses the results of those calculations to set
sensible values for align and display if these have
not been supplied. It attaches attributes to the resulting object
which specify details of the function call which are needed when
printing the resulting object which is of class
c("xtableFtable", "ftable").
print.xtableFtable uses the attributes attached to an object
of class c("xtableFtable", "ftable") to create a suitable
character matrix object for subsequent printing. Formatting is
carried out by changing the class of the c("xtableFtable",
"ftable") to "ftable" then using the generic format
to invoke format.ftable, from the stats package. The
matrix object produced is then printed via a call to
print.xtable.
Note that at present there is no code for type = "html".
Value
For xtableFtable an object of class c("xtableFtable",
"ftable"), with attributes
ftableCaption
the value of the caption argument
ftableLabel
the value of the label argument
ftableAlign
the value of the label argument
ftableDigits
the value of the digits argument or the
default value if digits = NULL
quote
the value of the quote argument
ftableDisplay
the value of the display argument or the
default value if align = NULL
method
the value of the method argument
lsep
the value of the lsep argument
nChars
a vector of length 2 giving the number of character rows
and the number of character columns
For print.xtableFtable a character string which will produce a
formatted table when included in a LaTeX document.
Note
The functions xtableFtable and print.xtableFtable are
new and their behaviour may change in the future based on user
experience and recommendations.
It is not recommended that users change the values of align,
digits or align. First of all, alternative values have
not been tested. Secondly, it is most likely that to determine
appropriate values for these arguments, users will have to investigate
the code for xtableFtable and/or print.xtableFtable.