Dieter Menne wrote: > Rainer M Krug <RKrug <at> sun.ac.za> writes: > >> I am using the latex() command from the Hmisc package to export table >> to latex. For formating of the values, I use the format() function. But >> I don't manage to get the format of the values right: I don't want >> scientific notation, but if I say scientific=FALSE, I get many digits >> after the decimal point which I can not control with digits=... and >> nsmall=... in the format command. >> >> Is there another way of formating the values to three decimal digits? >> >> Or another way of exporting them to LaTeX? > > There were a few bugs in the current versions of format.df (called by latex), > and the "scientific" problem could have been among them. > > Try to download latex.s from > > http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/svn/R/Hmisc/branches/release_3.2-1/R/latex.s > > do > > library(Hmisc) > source("latex.s") Thanks - I did it but it still doesn't work.
I should have mentioned that I am using the function format() from the base package to create a data.frame which I then give to latex() to export - without formating from latex(). I am not using the format functions of the Hmisc package as I read that there are problems with them. Rainer > > and check if the problem disappears. If it does, write a mail to > [charles.dupont > at vanderbilt.edu] and ask him to make the version public as soon as possible. > > Dieter > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 - (0)72 808 2975 (w) Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax: +27 - (0)21 808 3304 (w) Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
