Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. wrote:

I have been looking at some 'table' examples in Peter Dalgaard's ISwR book, and I am 
confused by how to get right justification of my table headings when I use the 
tables() command.  Compare the following:

# Produces right justfified column names
caff.marital=matrix(c(652,1537,598,242,36,46,38,21,218,327,106,67),nrow=3,byrow=T)
colnames(caff.marital)=c("0","1-150","151-300",">300")
rownames(caff.marital)=c("Married","Prev.married","Single")
caff.marital
class(caff.marital)

#Produces Left justified column names
library(ISwR)
data(juul)
attach(juul)
sex.tan=table(sex,tanner)
colnames(sex.tan)=c("I","II","IIII","IV","V")
rownames(sex.tan)=c("M","F")
sex.tan
class(sex.tan)

# Finally, look at (left justified)
as.table(caff.marital)

Somehow PD got right justified columns with this dataset. Is there a new way of doing things in version 2.0.0, my ignorance, a bug? I tried making the columns factors first, but in my hands this did not appear to help either. Thanks for any insight.

[Since this question seems to be unanswered:]

This is a question related to Peter Dalgaard's book, so why don't you ask the author rather than the whole world?

Note that caff.materia is a matrix while as.table(caff.marital) is a table (and has a different print method).

Why does the justification matter here? I'm much too lazy to look for changes in R related to your question - but probably you have done yourself before asking the question...???
And why don't you cite the example you are referring to (e.g. by a page number!!!) exactly? I'm also too lazy to read Peter's book once more just in order to find the example you are talking about!


Uwe Ligges


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Department of Physiology
A. T. Still University of Health Science
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