chrfrantz/R2LaTeX

Generating LaTeX table from R data frame or matrix

R2LaTeX

Script that facilitates exporting data from R to LaTeX

LatexPrinting.R - Produces LaTeX tables from R matrices or dataframes with a wide range of formatting options.

Selected features include:

• Printing column and row headers
• Adding additional labels for columns and rows
• Selectively adding separators for columns and rows and/or headers
• Manual specification of default column format
• Automatically determining column formatting based on decimal places of contained numeric data (per column or globally)
• Substitution of empty data cell values
• Compatibility mode that prevents use of features that require additional LaTeX packages (such as booktabs and sunitx)

Usage:

1. Copy file into R working directory.
2. Execute it (e.g. source("LatexPrinting.R"))
3. Use printLatexTable() to print R data frame or matrix. See documentation for details and examples.

Examples:

1.) Simple Example

m <- matrix(rexp(100), 10)
printLatexTable(m)

2.) More Complex Example

attach(mtcars)
printLatexTable(mtcars, "mtcarsTable.txt", printColumnHeaders = TRUE, printRowHeaders = TRUE, boldColumnHeaders = TRUE, boldColumnAndRowLabel = TRUE, separateColumnHeadersFromData = TRUE, separateRowHeadersFromData = TRUE, columnLabel = "Attributes", rowLabel = "Car Models", caption = "Car Models with Attributes", label = "tab:cars")