[R] Problem setting the number of digits in xtable
Brian Diggs
diggsb at ohsu.edu
Wed Nov 24 22:20:26 CET 2010
On 11/22/2010 9:16 AM, wphantomfr wrote:
> DEar list members,
>
> I am currently using Sweave with LaTeX which is great.
>
> I can use xtable for formatting outp of tables but I have a problem
> setting the number of decimals in xtables when used with dataframe.
>
> I have found an example on the net ith matrix and it works.
>
> For example this works :
>>> tmp<- matrix(rnorm(9), 3, 3)
>>> xtmp<- xtable(tmp)
>>> digits(xtmp)<- c(0,0,3,4)
>>> print(xtmp, include.rownames = FALSE) # row names
>
> produced :
>> % latex table generated in R 2.12.0 by xtable 1.5-6 package
>> % Mon Nov 22 17:35:00 2010
>> \begin{table}[ht]
>> \begin{center}
>> \begin{tabular}{rrr}
>> \hline
>> 1& 2& 3 \\
>> \hline
>> -2& -2.158& 2.8886 \\
>> 1& 1.330& 0.4677 \\
>> -0& 0.486& -0.3319 \\
>> \hline
>> \end{tabular}
>> \end{center}
>> \end{table}
>
>
>
> But this won't work :
>>> mydata
>> TEST t ddl p CONDITION
>> 2 R1 3.01109061083632 16 0.00828552765650315 C1
>> 3 R2 3.30476953908811 16 0.00447412002109504 C1
>> 4 DR 2.86343993410509 16 0.0112631908739966 C1
>> 5 R1 1.05386387510206 16 0.30760068470456 C2
>> 6 R2 3.04997140665209 16 0.00763921045771104 C2
>> 7 DR 2.25175987512241 16 0.0387401575011488 C2
>
> but
>>> xtable(mydata,digits=2)
>
> produced
>
>> % latex table generated in R 2.12.0 by xtable 1.5-6 package
>> % Mon Nov 22 18:13:47 2010
>> \begin{table}[ht]
>> \begin{center}
>> \begin{tabular}{rlllll}
>> \hline
>> & TEST& t& ddl& p& CONDITION \\
>> \hline
>> 2& R1& 3.01109061083632& 16& 0.00828552765650315& C1 \\
>> 3& R2& 3.30476953908811& 16& 0.00447412002109504& C1 \\
>> 4& DR& 2.86343993410509& 16& 0.0112631908739966& C1 \\
>> 5& R1& 1.05386387510206& 16& 0.30760068470456& C2 \\
>> 6& R2& 3.04997140665209& 16& 0.00763921045771104& C2 \\
>> 7& DR& 2.25175987512241& 16& 0.0387401575011488& C2 \\
>> \hline
>> \end{tabular}
>> \end{center}
>> \end{table}
>
>
>
>
> I have also tried setting the digits with c(0,0,4,0,4,0), using also
> the 'display' argument to specify the type of each column... noway...
>
>
> What am I missing ?
My guess is that the data frame is not what you think it is. In
particular, I bet the t and p columns are not really numbers, but
strings or factors. Does str(mydata) show this?
> Thanks in advance
>
> Sylvain Clément
--
Brian S. Diggs, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery
Oregon Health & Science University
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