Just a follow-up,

by giving names with variable amounts of white space, I could make the 
column and rownames
invisible (although this is probably abusing the mechanisms, however, 
this is only for
display purposes, I suppose).

dd <- data.frame(c1  = c("Heading 1", "", "Heading 2", ""),
c2 = c("This is some info", "about heading 1", "This is some info", 
"about heading "))

names(dd) <- c(" ", "    ")
rownames(dd) <- c(" ", "   ", "     ", "          ")

dd

            Heading 1 This is some info
                        about heading 1
            Heading 2 This is some info
                         about heading


On Jul 19, 2006, at 11:40 AM, ken knoblauch wrote:

> Hi Hadley,
>
> I find that things line up better in data.frames
>
> data.frame(c1  = c("Heading 1", "", "Heading 2", ""),
> + c2 = c("This is some info", "about heading 1", "This is some info", 
> "about heading "))
>          c1                c2
> 1 Heading 1 This is some info
> 2             about heading 1
> 3 Heading 2 This is some info
> 4              about heading
>
>
> although, this looks better in my console window than pasted here.
> Then the question is what to so with the row and column names.
>
> HTH,
>
> ken
>
>
>> > heading1 <- "Heading1"
>> > heading2 <- "Heading2"
>> >
>> > a <- matrix(c(
>> >         "Heading 1",  paste("This is some info\nabout", heading1, 
>> sep=""),
>> >         "Heading 2",  paste("This is some info\nabout", heading2, 
>> sep=""),
>> > ), byrow=T, nrow=2)
>>
>> I wasn't so concerned about the redundancy in my example, but how it 
>> looks - eg.
>>
>> > somefunction(h)
>> Heading 1  This is some info
>>           about heading 1
>> Heading 2  This is some info
>>           about heading 2
>>
>>
>> Hadley
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