Convert a Data Frame or Matrix to a LaTeX Tabular

latexTabular creates a character vector representing a matrix or data frame in a simple tabular environment.

Usage

latexTabular(x, headings=colnames(x),
             align =paste(rep('c',ncol(x)),collapse=''),
             halign=paste(rep('c',ncol(x)),collapse=''),
             helvetica=TRUE, translate=TRUE, hline=0, center=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x: a matrix or data frame, or a vector that is automatically converted to a matrix
headings: a vector of character strings specifying column headings for latexTabular, defaulting to x's colnames. To make multi-line headers use the newline character inside elements of headings.
align: a character strings specifying column alignments for latexTabular, defaulting to paste(rep('c',ncol(x)),collapse='') to center. You may specify align='c|c' and other LaTeX tabular formatting.
halign: a character strings specifying alignment for column headings, defaulting to centered.
helvetica: set to FALSE to use default LaTeX font in latexTabular instead of helvetica.
translate: set to FALSE if column headings and table entries are already in LaTeX format, otherwise latexTabular will run them through latexTranslate
hline: set to 1 to put hline after heading, 2 to also put hlines before and after heading and at table end
center: set to TRUE to enclose the tabular in a LaTeX center environment
...: if present, x is run through format.df with those extra arguments

Value

a character string containing LaTeX markup

Author

Frank E. Harrell, Jr.,
Department of Biostatistics,
Vanderbilt University,
fh@fharrell.com

Examples

x <- matrix(1:6, nrow=2, dimnames=list(c('a','b'),c('c','d','this that')))
latexTabular(x)   # a character string with LaTeX markup
#> [1] "{\\fontfamily{phv}\\selectfont \\begin{tabular}{ccc}\nc&d&this that\\\\\n1&3&5\\\\\n2&4&6\\\\\n\\end{tabular}}"