[R] xtable without rownames

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Don't know about xtable but here is an alternative:

require(Hmisc)
data(iris)
iris4 <- iris[1:4,]  # first 4 rows of iris as test
latex(iris4,file="") # with row names
attr(iris4,"row.names") <- NULL
latex(iris4,file="") # without row names

Jeff D. Hamann <jeff.hamann <at> forestinformatics.com> writes:

: 
: When I tried to read all the entries (after searching the FAQ) for "row
: names xtable", I get
: 
: 
: START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * R FAQ: (R-FAQ). The R statistical system ...
: ... xtable* Export data to LaTeX and HTML tables. ... For dropping the row
: names of a matrix
: `x', it may be easier to use `rownames(x) <- NULL', similarly for column ...
: cvs.r-project.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/R/FAQ?rev=1.301 - 101k - Supplemental
: Result - Cached - Similar pages
: I wasn't able to follow the link. I'd like to use xtable to generate latex
: tables for using with Sweave and can't figure out how to not include the row
: names. When I attempt to NULL out the row names using,
: 
: but cannot follow the links. Browser tells me the page is unavailable. When
: I attempt to blank out the row names using,
: 
: rownames(summary.table) <- NULL
: 
: I get the following error
: 
: > rownames(rta) <- NULL
: Error in "dimnames<-.data.frame"(`*tmp*`, value = dn) :
:  invalid dimnames given for data frame
: >
: 
: the resulting (incorrect) table appears as,
: 
: > xtable( rta )
: % latex table generated in R 1.9.0 by xtable 1.2-2 package
: % Wed May 12 17:38:21 2004
: \begin{table}[ht]
: \begin{center}
: \begin{tabular}{rlr}
: \hline
:  & site.index & acres \\
: \hline
: 1 &  80 & 20.90 \\
: 2 &  90 & 64.42 \\
: ...blah, blah, blah...
: 8 & 150 & 53.32 \\
: 9 & 170 & 0.69 \\
: \hline
: \end{tabular}
: \end{center}
: \end{table}
: >
: 
: with the rownames. How do I get them out?
: 
: I'm stuck. Help.
: 
: Jeff.
: 
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