Use Showoff package for printing tables
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@dcjones has written the Showoff package that makes it easy to align numeric values in a column. I think that a combination of Showoff and using show(io,...) or print(io,...) calls in the show methods can make the output of describe and hpd easier to read. It should also be possible to use mime types to create tables that show up as such in IJulia notebooks.
I would be willing to take a first cut at this. Should I create a new branch from the master branch or from the develop branch?
Better formatting of posterior summary statistics would be great. The current approach is pretty basic. I would be happy to merge in any improvements on that. I'm not familiar with @dcjones Showoff package, but have been impressed with his Gadfly one. His packages seem well-written and maintained.
BTW, early on, I was looking at the CoefTable type in the StatsBase package and how it is displayed. That might be worthwhile considering, but feel free to use whatever approach you like.
Do go ahead and branch off of the develop branch.
If someone (like me) gets really ambitious it would be good to have methods for Base.writemime so that HTML or CSV or TSV tables could be produced. I am also toying with the idea of using Unicode subscript characters instead of the [1] notation for vector indices in the colnames.
An example using this output is the MvGaussian notebook which can be viewed at
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/dmbates/juliaboxnotebooks/
Those notebooks are nice. Makes me think it's time for me to learn how to use IJulia.
Mime type methods would be good to have. A latex one too might get a fair amount of use. Subscripted indices would be cool.
Yes, I'd been pretty convinced by several of Steven Johnson's Notebooks and JuliaBox stuff, but these examples are equally impressive and convincing!