Hi Charles, This looks great, I'll try it out later today.
Any chance that more automated multicolumn headers will be added in a future version? I know you can do it using the add.to.row argument, but it would be great to have an automated way using something like cgroup and n.cgroup in Hmisc:latex. Best, Ista On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 09:40:28 AM Charles Roosen wrote: > Dear R-users, > > I've enhanced the "xtable" package, adding numerous features that have been > requested by users. The changes are listed below. > > The objective throughout has been to avoid any breaking changes. However, > as "xtable" is widely used and is a dependency of many packages I'd like to > have others try it out before I post it to CRAN. Both bug reports and > design feedback is welcomed. > > In particular, I'd like to have package authors that have written "xtable" > methods try it out. > > If you are interested and willing, you can get the source from R-Forge via > SVN: > > svn checkout svn://scm.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/xtable/ > > I can also send source and Windows binary versions to anyone that is > interested. > > Feedback can be sent to me or posted in the issue tracking system on > R-Forge: > > http://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?group_id=1228 > > Note that the R-Forge build system is currently being updated, so the option > of installing directly from R-Forge won't get the latest version of the > package. > > Thanks, > Charlie Roosen > xtable maintainer > > -------------- > > NEWS > > 1.7-0 (NOT YET RELEASED) > * Added some vectorization code to improve performance. > * Let "caption" be length 2, in which case the second value is > the short caption used when creating a list of tables. > * Added "toLatex" method. > * Included "print.xtable" in the exported methods in the NAMESPACE file. > * Added "print.results" argument to "print" that can be used to > suppress the printing. > * Added "format.args" argument to "print" that can be used to > pass additional arguments such as "big.marks" to "formatC()". > * Added "rotate.colnames" and "rotate.rownames" arguments to > "print.xtable". > * Added "booktabs" argument to use the "\toprule", "\midrule", and > "\bottomrule" tags from the Latex "booktabs" package rather than > using "\hline" for all horizontal lines. > * Added "scalebox" argument to include a "\scalebox" clause around > the tabular environment with the specified value used as the > scaling factor. > * Changed the "print.xtable()" arguments to use "getOption()" > to check the options for a default value. This was suggested > since "print.xtable()" has a lot of arguments that the user > will typically leave unchanged between tables. > * Added an "is.null()" check on the "table.placement" argument. > * Added examples using the new arguments to the vignette. > > Charles Roosen, PhD > Technical Director > > T: +41 (0)61 206 92 91 > M: +41 (0)79 248 70 71 > F: +41 (0) 61 206 92 99 > > www.mango-solutions.com > > Mango Solutions AG > Aeschenvorstadt 36 > 4051 Basel > Switzerland > > > LEGAL NOTICE > This message is intended for the use o...{{dropped:10}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.