On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 12:46 -0700, jcarmichael wrote: > Hello everyone. I am new to R, so please bear with me. I am trying to find > an easy way to export descriptive statistics and other information about my > data frame to a LaTeX format. > > I have found the describe function in PrettyR to be very helpful in > producing results in the exact format I'm looking for. However, the value > of the describe function is a LIST (rather than a data frame) which I am > then unable to convert to LaTeX using the xtable package or the latex > function of Hmisc. When I try to convert the list to a data frame, I get an > error that says "arguments imply differing number of rows." > > If that didn't make any sense...ultimately, here is what I'm trying (and > failing) to produce as a LaTeX document... > > MALES FEMALES > Q10 Med Q90 Q10 Med Q90 > AGE xx xx xx xx xx xx > BMI xx xx xx xx xx > xx > etc. xx xx xx xx xx > xx > Hi J, You can reduce the list produced by "describe" to a variety of text formats using the "delim.table" function. However, you seem to want something like a hierarchical table format. If I had to do this, I would probably write a function something like "delim.table" to massage the data into a format that can be read by the "latex" function.
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