[R] printing tabular data nicely

[Roger D. Peng]

The print method for xtable can send the output to a file.

-roger

Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
> 
> 
> wwsprague at ucdavis.edu wrote:
> 
>> Hi R-heplers,
>>
>> I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to 
>> files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. 
>> Is there a way to do this?
>>
>> I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste.  But I am not sure of a 
>> good combination of these in order to get a nice looking table of 
>> information.
>>
>> Any ideas?  I guess I want (almost) publication ready output, just 
>> like you get for "plot"...
>>
>> (I *don't* want to print to the console, btw)
>>
>> Thx again.
>> W
>>
> 
> Take a look at the xtable package. I'm not sure if you can get xtable to 
> print directly to a file. If not you can use xtable in conjunction with 
> ?sink.
> 
> --sundar
> 
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