Hello,
I am writing a manuscript for a scientific journal in clinical medicine.
I have three groups of patients, and I present a 10*3 table of their
characteristics in Table 1. Some of their characteristics, e.g. their
age, are on a continuous scale, others are dichotomous. I am thinking of
presenting the age distribution in each group as miniature graphs, each
of which must fit in one table cell. I am hoping that someone can answer
these questions:
1. Has anybody ever seen something like this published anywhere?
2. Should I draw the entire table as a figure, or should I make a table
in Word (or similar) and manually insert the graphs in their cells?
Depending on your needs, there's another solution. You could output
LaTeX, and compile that to a PDF. The first thing I thought of when I
read your topic was the "describe" function in Hmisc. The help file for
?describe references
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/Hmisc/counties.pdf
Probably not exactly what you're looking for, but it might be start. See
also:
http://texblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/placing-graphicsimages-inside-a-table/
I would probably go this route, generating code to produce a LaTeX table
and the associated image files. I've also used low-level grid graphics
function calls (e.g., grid.text ) to produce 'tables' with hazard ratio
type graphics included as a column. (a 'forest plot').
Hope that helps,
Erik
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