Look at the rgroup and n.rgroup arguments of ?latex function in Hmisc package or ?print.xtable in xtable package.
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmex...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi: > This is what my table should look like: > > Month Week Estpassage MedFL > July-----27--------4566--------34 > -----28--------2568--------35 > -----29--------3287--------36 > -----30--------4623--------37 > Aug------31--------8632--------37 > ------32--------4236--------38 > ------33--------7632--------39 > ------34--------5984--------40 > Sept-----35--------1258--------40 > -----36--------4235--------41 > -----37--------2573--------42 > -----38--------423---------43 > I don't want to reshape my dataset, I basically want a latex table showing > only one value on the first column instead of repeating the month over and > over. I know this can be done with \multirow if the table is created > manually. Since this table is created dynamically on the fly I don't know how > to use \multirow like that. Hope is clear. Thanks > > > --- On Mon, 1/12/09, Dieter Menne <dieter.me...@menne-biomed.de> wrote: > >> From: Dieter Menne <dieter.me...@menne-biomed.de> >> Subject: Re: [R] merge table rows (\multirow) >> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 12:41 AM >> Felipe Carrillo <mazatlanmexico <at> yahoo.com> >> writes: >> >> > I need help merging rows. >> > I am trying to merge the 'Month' column using >> \multirow. For example for the >> column 'Week' I want July to be >> > merged into one row(weeks 27,28,29,30) and so on for >> the following weeks. >> > Below, I am creating a PDF using Sweave, >> MikTex,R-2.8.1 and windows XP to show >> an example. >> >> >> I don't fully understand how the table should look >> like, mainly >> how the Week display should look like. I suggest that you >> try to >> not do the main formatting in latex/xtable, but rather use >> function reshape or package reshape (below). The following >> should give you a starter, I know it is not fully what you >> want. >> >> Dieter >> >> >> sampDat <- "Month Week Estpassage MedFL >> July 27 665 34 >> July 28 2232 35 >> July 29 9241 35 >> July 30 28464 35 >> Aug 31 41049 35 >> Aug 32 82216 35 >> Aug 33 230411 35 >> Aug 34 358541 35 >> Sept 35 747839 35 >> Sept 36 459682 36 >> Sept 37 609567 36 >> Sept 38 979475 36 >> Sept 39 837189 36" >> DF <- read.table(textConnection(sampDat), header = TRUE) >> >> library(reshape) >> DFm = melt(DF,id=c("Month","Week")) >> cast(DFm,variable~Month+Week) > > ______________________________________________ > 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.