>>>>> SOEIRO Thomas >>>>> on Wed, 13 May 2020 20:27:15 +0000 writes:
> Dear all, > I haven't received any feedback so far on my proposal to make "justify" argument available in stats:::format.ftable > Is this list the appropriate place for this kind of proposal? Yes, it is.. Actually such a post is even a "role model" post for R-devel. > I hope this follow-up to my message won't be taken as rude. Of course it's not meant to be, but I'm not used to the R mailing lists... well, there could be said much, and many stories told here ... ;-) > Thank you in advance for your comments, > Best, > Thomas The main reasons for "no reaction" (for such nice post) probably are combination of the following - we are busy - if we have time, we think other things are more exciting - we have not used ftable much/at all and are not interested. Even though the first 2 apply to me, I'll have a 2nd look into your post now, and may end up well agreeing with your proposal. Martin Maechler ETH Zurich and R Core team >> Dear all, >> >> justify argument is hard coded in format.ftable: >> >> cbind(apply(LABS, 2L, format, justify = "left"), >> apply(DATA, 2L, format, justify = "right")) >> >> It would be useful to have the possibility to modify the argument between c("left", "right", "centre", "none") as in format.default. >> >> The lines could be changed to: >> >> if(length(justify) != 2) >> stop("justify must be length 2") >> cbind(apply(LABS, 2L, format, justify = justify[1]), >> apply(DATA, 2L, format, justify = justify[2])) >> >> The argument justify could defaults to c("left", "right") for backward compatibility. >> >> It could then allow: >> ftab <- ftable(wool + tension ~ breaks, warpbreaks) >> format.ftable(ftab, justify = c("none", "none")) >> >> Best regards, >> >> Thomas ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel