Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. wrote:
> > 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:] [It wasn't...] > This is a question related to Peter Dalgaard's book, so why don't you > ask the author rather than the whole world? And make me responsible for tracking all post-publication changes in R? (Now, what I should have had was regression tests in the ISwR package failing when script output changed, but, well, "The road to hell, etc...") > 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...??? This particular change is very hard to find in NEWS, and even in the SVN logs. It's a side effect of using format() inside print.table, conspiring with R's default for string printing. This results in getting right-justified strings (left-padded with spaces) printed left-justified so that the names line up with the leading whitespace. Try print(as.table(matrix(c(1,2,1,1e4),2))) > 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! It actually was a paraphrased example, as those who can grep the TeX sources found out... -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
