It would be helpfull if you would state what exactly you did expect. As improvements you could reduce the digits, see ?xtable
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [R] "xtable" results doesn't correspond to data.frame From: Vumani Dlamini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Date: 20.06.2007 11:20 > Dear useRs, > Am trying to use xtable on the following data.frame and I don't get what I > expect: > > example.table <- data.frame(rbind( > c("Gender"," "," "," "), > cbind(rep(" ",2),c("Male","Female"),c(3.0,4.0),c(3/7,4/7)) > )) > colnames(example.table) <- c(" "," ","number of patients","%") > example.xtable <- xtable(example.table) > print.xtable(example.xtable, include.rownames=FALSE) > > I can seem to get latex output which corresponds to the data.frame which is, > \begin{table}[ht] > \begin{center} > \begin{tabular}{llll} > \hline > & & number of patients & \% \\ > \hline > Gender & & & \\ > & Male & 3 & 0.428571428571429 \\ > & Female & 4 & 0.571428571428571 \\ > \hline > \end{tabular} > \end{center} > \end{table} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.