# [R] xtable: custom row.names, move caption to top

Michael Friendly friendly at yorku.ca
Wed Nov 27 15:24:22 CET 2013

With xtable, I'm producing one-way tables from table objects in
horizontal form as shown below.
I'd like to change the labels used for the rows and move the caption to
the top of the table,
as is typically standard for tables.  I can hand-edit, but would prefer
to do it in code.

data(Saxony, package="vcd")
library(xtable)
caption="Number of male children in 6115 Saxony families of size 12")

print(saxtab)
> print(saxtab)
% latex table generated in R 3.0.1 by xtable 1.7-1 package
% Wed Nov 27 09:12:16 2013
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr}
\hline
& 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & Sum \\
\hline
1 & 3 & 24 & 104 & 286 & 670 & 1033 & 1343 & 1112 & 829 & 478 & 181 & 45
& 7 & 6115 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Number of male children in 6115 Saxony families of size 12}
\end{table}
>

The desired form looks like this, with row.names = c("Males ($k$)",
"Families ($n_k$)")

% latex table generated in R 3.0.1 by xtable 1.7-1 package
% Tue Nov 26 14:56:02 2013
\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Number of male children in 6115 Saxony families of size 12}
\label{tab:saxtab}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l|rrrrrrrrrrrrrr}
\hline
Males ($k$) & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & Sum \\
\hline
Families ($n_k$) & 3 & 24 & 104 & 286 & 670 & 1033 & 1343 & 1112 & 829 &
478 & 181 & 45 & 7 & 6115 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

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