[R] colouring a table, data.frame or matrix in an interactive R session

[drflxms]

Am 07.01.12 21:12, schrieb Michael Friendly:
> On 1/7/2012 5:48 AM, drflxms wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> as I am dealing with complex confusion matrices, I wonder whether there
>> might be a way to colour text/tabular data in R. I.e. imagine
>> highlighting the true positive values or certain classes in a table.
>>
>> I know how to colour text in graphical output as well as how to sweave
>> or odfWeave coloured tables. But is there a way to do it directly in an
>> interactive R session?
>> Of course I understand that terminals originally haven't been designed
>> for coloured output and that one can easily extract every information
>> needed by subscripting. But still coloured text in the interactive
>> session would sometimes just be comfortable.
>>
> 
> It depends on what kind of terminal you are using, but maybe not worth
> the effort.
> lattice::levelplot can do a nice job of coloring cells in a table.
> 

Well, not exactly what I was looking for, I guess, as I'd like to colour
text in the terminal in this case but definitely a great package which
is very useful for another project ;) Thanx a lot for your help!
Felix