[R] Hmisc ctable rotate option obsolete?

[Simon Zehnder]

So, I downloaded the source files of Hmisc and changed in the file latex.s line 688 'rotate' to 'sideways'. This does the work for landscape ctables in Latex. 

I also wrote an email to the package maintainer. I consider this thread as solved. 


Best

Simon

On Jul 26, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Simon Zehnder <szehnder at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Dear R-Users and R-Devels,
> 
> I may have found a deprecated option for the 'latex' function in the Hmisc package. I am working with Hmisc and knitr and tried the following code:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
> \usepackage{ctable}
> %\usepackage{booktabs}
> \begin{document}
> <<results = 'asis'>>=
> library(Hmisc)
> iris.t <- head(iris)
> iris.t[seq(2, NROW(iris.t), by = 2),] <- format(iris.t[seq(2, NROW(iris.t), by = 2),], scientific = TRUE)
> texMat <- matrix("", ncol = 5, nrow = 6)
> texMat[seq(2,nrow(texMat), by = 2), ] <- "scriptsize"
> latex(iris.t, 
> file = '', 
> landscape = TRUE,
> dcolumn = TRUE,
> col.just = c('r','c', 'r','c', 'l'),
> cdec = c(0, 0, 1, 1, 0),
> na.blank = TRUE,
> rowname = '',
> rowlabel = '', 
> cellTexCmd = texMat,
> ctable = TRUE, 
> cgroup = c('Observations', ''),
> n.cgroup = c(4, 1),
> rgroup = c('',''),
> n.rgroup = c(3, 3),
> caption = 'iris'
> )
> @
> \end{document}
> 
> Everything runs fine but the 'landscape' option. It says in the help for 'latex' that if option 'ctable' is set to TRUE the 'rotate' option for ctable is used if 'nadscape' is set TRUE. Looking at the ctable documentary (http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ctable/ctable.pdf) in section Change History, I get for version v1.07: General: Added option sideways, option rotate now obsolete. Hasn't this been updated in the Hmisc package?
> 
> Best
> 
> Simon
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.