[R] Hmisc/Design and problem with cgroup

Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Wed May 18 04:44:27 CEST 2005


Aric Gregson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to use the following to output a table to latex:
> 
> cohortbyagesummary <- by(data.frame(age,ethnicity), cohort, summary) 
> 
> w <- latex.default(cohortbyagesummary, 
>     caption="Five Number Age Summaries by Cohort",
>     label="agesummarybycohort", 
>     cgroup=c('hello','goodbye','hello'),
>     colheads=c("Age","Ethnicity"),
>     extracolheads=c('hello','goodbye'), # demonstration of subheadings
>     greek=TRUE,
>     ctable=TRUE)
>     
> I am not able to get the major column headings of cgroup to work. I
> receive the error:
>     Object cline not found
>     
> I do not see in the examples or documentation that you must specify
> cline or anything. 
> 
> Any suggestions? Thanks very much,
> 
> aric
> 
> R 2.0.1
> Design 2.0-11
> Hmisc  3.0-5
> OS X 10.3.9
> 
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See if a modified version at
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/Hmisc/R/latex.s
fixes your problem.

You don't need .default after latex.

Frank
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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University




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