# [R] latex tables for 3+ dimensional tables/arrays

Michael Friendly friendly at yorku.ca
Thu Dec 2 22:54:14 CET 2010

On 12/2/2010 4:04 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> ?latex  # yes I know you are aware of this but it seemed as though you
> # Attached is the output on my device from the following command:
> latexVerbatim( ftable(UCB))

Perhaps I should have been more explicit.  I can always use verbatim as
a fall-back, but what I want is
something to produce the *latex* code to give something actually
formatted as a latex table.

Below is
something along the lines of what I want (similar to  t(
This was written *directly* from an object in SAS/IML by routines I
wrote some time ago.  I'm looking
for an R equivalent, something that can be used in Sweave documents.

% Table berk3 written by md2tex 12Dec99
\begin{table}[htb]
\caption{Berkeley data: 3-way table}\label{tab:berk3}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|rr|rr|}
\hline
& \multicolumn{2}{c}{Male} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Female} \\ \cline{2-5}
\hline
A & 512 & 313 & 89 & 19 \\
B & 353 & 207 & 17 & 8 \\
C & 120 & 205 & 202 & 391 \\
D & 138 & 279 & 131 & 244 \\
E & 53 & 138 & 94 & 299 \\
F & 22 & 351 & 24 & 317 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

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