R: Print Export Tables

print.xtable {xtable}

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Print Export Tables

Description

Function returning and displaying or writing to disk the LaTeX or HTML code associated with the supplied object of class xtable.

Usage

print.xtable(x, type="latex", file="", append=FALSE, floating=TRUE, floating.environment="table", table.placement = "ht", caption.placement="bottom", latex.environments=c("center"),tabular.environment = "tabular", size=NULL,hline.after=c(-1,0,nrow(x)), NA.string = "", include.rownames=TRUE,include.colnames=TRUE,only.contents=FALSE,add.to.row=NULL, sanitize.text.function=NULL,...)

Arguments

`x`	An object of class `"xtable"`.
`type`	Type of table to produce. Possible values for `type` are `"latex"` or `"html"`. Default value is `"latex"`.
`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, `\begin{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 are `"table"` or `"sidewaystable"` (defined in the LaTeX package 'rotating'). 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 have 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"`.
`latex.environments`	If `floating=TRUE` and `type="latex"`, the specificed latex environments (provided as a character vector) will enclose the tabuluar environment. Default value is `"center"`.
`tabular.environment`	When `type="latex"`, the tabular environment that will be used. Defaults to `"tabular"`. When working with tables that extend more than one page, using `tabular.environment="longtable"` and the LaTeX package `"longtable"` (see Fairbairns, 2005) allows one to typeset them uniformly. Note that `"floating"` should be set to `"FALSE"` when using the `"longtable"` environment.
`size`	An arbitrary character vector intended to be used to set the font size in a LaTeX table. The supplied value (if not `NULL`) is inserted just before the tabular environment starts. 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. If `NULL` is used no lines are produced. Default value is `c(-1,0,nrow(x))` which means draw a line before and after the columns names and at the end of the table. Repeated values are allowed.
`NA.string`	String to be used for missing values in table enteries. Default value is `""`.
`include.rownames`	logical. If `TRUE` the rows names is printed. Default value is `TRUE`.
`include.colnames`	logical. If `TRUE` the columns names is printed. Default value is `TRUE`.
`only.contents`	logical. If `TRUE` only the rows of the table is printed. Default value is `FALSE`.
`add.to.row`	a list of two components. The first component (which should be called 'pos') is a list 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 of 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`	If not null, a function which will be called on each non-numeric column. If NULL, a default function will be used. Default value is `NULL`.
`...`	Additional arguments. (Currently ignored.)

Details

This function displays or writes to disk the code to produce a table associated with an object x of class "xtable". The resulting code is either a LaTeX or HTML table, depending on the value of type. The function also (invisibly) returns a character vector of the results (which can be helpful for post-processing).

Since version 1.4 the non default behavior of hline.after is changed. To obtain the same results as the previous versions add to the hline.after vector the vector c(-1, 0, nrow(x)) where nrow(x) is the numbers of rows of the object.

From version 1.4-3, all non-numeric columns are sanitized, and all LaTeX special characters are sanitised for LaTeX output. See the vignette for an example of customising the sanitization.

Author(s)

David Dahl dahl@stat.tamu.edu with contributions and suggestions from many others (see source code).

References

Fairbairns, Robin (2005) Tables longer than a single page The UK List of TeX Frequently Asked Questions on the Web. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=longtab