[R] plotting only text as a table

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Stephan Holl wrote:

> Dear R-Gurus,
>
> I am preparing a multiple-plot-sheet with 2rows and 2 columns, but there
> are actually only 3 plots to plot.
> the 4. part of my sheet should contain a table with simple statistic
> values like n, mode, standard deviation....
>
> I cannot handle to plot the information in the plot. the summary()
> function prints it to the xtrem instead of the plot.
>

If you have some lines of text in variable foo you can get a reasonable
start on plotting it with

	plot.new()
	plot.window(xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1))
	text(0.5,0.5, paste(foo,collapse="\n"))

which will put it centered horizontally and vertically.  You will probably
then need to adjust things.

If you want the text to be the output of an R command and can't figure out
how to construct the text yourself you can capture it in a textConnection.
There is an example in help(textConnection).

	-thomas

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