[R] Hmisc/Design and problem with cgroup

[Uwe Ligges]

Aric Gregson wrote:
> On 5/17/05 21:44 Frank E Harrell Jr sent the following:
> 
> 
>>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'), 
>>>    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
>>>
>>
>>See if a modified version at
>>http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/Hmisc/R/latex.s
>>fixes your problem.
> 
> 
> Dr. Harrell,
> 
> Thanks for your help. I have downloaded latex.s, but am unable to figure
> out where it should go. How do I ensure that it is called when I load
> Hmisc? Do I patch it against R/Hmisc?
> 
> I have a local directory structure in ~/Library/R/library/Hmisc/:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 user  user  594 12 May 19:20 CITATION
> -rw-r--r--  1 user  user  989 12 May 19:20 DESCRIPTION
> drwxr-xr-x  3 user  user  102 12 May 19:20 Meta/package.rds
> drwxr-xr-x  3 user  user  102 12 May 19:20 R/Hmisc
> drwxr-xr-x  3 user  user  102 12 May 19:20 libs/Hmisc.so
> 
> Thanks for your patience.


Your directory structure is from an installed binary package. You need 
to replace the file in the *source* package and *install* the source 
package after that.

Uwe Ligges

> aric
> 
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