[R] Rearranging long dataframe for printing in Sweave (andrecoding a factor)

[Jean-Louis Abitbol]

Hi Steve and Liviu,

Thanks for the pointer to your posts.

Steve can you share your elegant solution ?

Up to now I have not had any answer from R-Help ...

Best, JL

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:24 +0200, "Steve Sidney" <sbsidney at mweb.co.za>
wrote:
> Dear Liviu / Jean-Louis
> 
> As the original poster I did find what I think is an elegant solution.
> 
> The only remaining problem is that I have not been able to get it to work
> in 
> Lyx, but it does work using a LaTeX editor (in this case WinEdt) and
> MikTex.
> 
> I would still like to resolve why I can't read the csv table in Lyx.
> 
> Regards
> Steve
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc at gmail.com>
> To: "Jean-Louis Abitbol" <abitbol at sent.com>
> Cc: "R Help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 5:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Rearranging long dataframe for printing in Sweave 
> (andrecoding a factor)
> 
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > On 1/24/10, Jean-Louis Abitbol <abitbol at sent.com> wrote:
> >>  I have to print a dataframe with >1000 rows and 2 columns for a report
> >>  done with Sweave.
> >>
> >>  I could use Hmisc latex function with longtable option.
> >>  However it is a waiste of space and paper given that I have only 2 (or
> >>  sometime 3) columns in the dataframe.
> >>
> >>  So it came to my mind that I could maybe  rearrange the dataframe and
> >>  create several new variables from the original 2 in a tabular way for
> >>  printing in less space.
> >>
> > There was a recent discussion on lyx-users [1] on a similar issue. I
> > am not sure whether the original poster found a solution, though.
> >
> > Liviu
> >
> > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg78933.html
> >
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