[R] xtable with dupplicate rownames

Anirudh V. S. Ruhil ruhil at ohio.edu
Sat Mar 10 22:30:09 CET 2007


I patched a solution together; essentially by using cbind to stack the 
proportions as columns. Duplicate columns names appear to pose no problems 
for xtable but duplicate rownames do!



--On Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:11 PM -0500 "Anirudh V. S. Ruhil" 
<ruhil at ohio.edu> wrote:

: I have  a table (tab5; see below) with the first block showing the counts
: in a cross-tabulation, and the lower block reflecting the proportions of
: interest.
:
:> tab5
:              None Low Level Moderate Intense Very Intense Total
: None         0.00      3.00     0.00    0.00         1.00     4
: Low Level    1.00      2.00     0.00    0.00         0.00     3
: Moderate     2.00      3.00     2.00    0.00         0.00     7
: Intense      3.00      1.00     1.00    1.00         0.00     6
: Very Intense 0.00      1.00     2.00    0.00         0.00     3
: Total        6.00     10.00     5.00    1.00         1.00    23
: None         0.00      0.75     0.00    0.00         0.25     1
: Low Level    0.33      0.67     0.00    0.00         0.00     1
: Moderate     0.29      0.43     0.29    0.00         0.00     1
: Intense      0.50      0.17     0.17    0.17         0.00     1
: Very Intense 0.00      0.33     0.67    0.00         0.00     1
:
: When I execute
: 	foo5 <- xtable(format(tab5), caption = "XYZ")
:
: I get the following error message
: 	Warning message:
: 	some row.names duplicated: 7,8,9,10,11 --> row.names NOT used in:
: 	data.row.names(row.names, rowsi, i)
:
: Is there any way to force the duplicate row-names to be retained in
: xtable?
:
: Alternatively, is there a succinct way of building a cross-tabulation
: with  both counts and proportions in each cell, and then using xtable?
:
: thanks for any and all tips
:
: Ani
:
: Anirudh V. S. Ruhil, Ph.D.
: Sr. Research Associate
: Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs
: Ohio University
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: Athens, OH 45701-2979
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Anirudh V. S. Ruhil, Ph.D.
Sr. Research Associate
Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs
Ohio University
Building 21, The Ridges
Athens, OH 45701-2979
Tel: 740.597.1949 | Fax: 740.597.3057



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