Hmisc (version 5.3-0)

print.char.matrix: Function to print a matrix with stacked cells

Description

Prints a dataframe or matrix in stacked cells. Line break charcters in a matrix element will result in a line break in that cell, but tab characters are not supported.

Usage

# S3 method for char.matrix
print(x, file = "", col.name.align = "cen", col.txt.align = "right", 
    cell.align = "cen", hsep = "|", vsep = "-", csep = "+", row.names = TRUE, 
    col.names = FALSE, append = FALSE,
    top.border = TRUE, left.border = TRUE, ...)

Value

No value is returned. The matrix or dataframe will be printed to file or to the screen.

Details

If any column of x is a mixture of character and numeric, the distinction between character and numeric columns will be lost. This is especially so if the matrix is of a form where you would not want to print the column names, the column information being in the rows at the beginning of the matrix.

Row names, if not specified in the making of the matrix will simply be numbers. To prevent printing them, set row.names = FALSE.

See Also

write, write.table

Examples

data(HairEyeColor)
print.char.matrix(HairEyeColor[ , , "Male"], col.names = TRUE)
print.char.matrix(HairEyeColor[ , , "Female"], col.txt.align = "left", col.names = TRUE)


z <- rbind(c("", "N", "y"),
           c("[ 1.34,40.3)\n[40.30,48.5)\n[48.49,58.4)\n[58.44,87.8]",
             " 50\n 50\n 50\n 50",
             "0.530\n0.489\n0.514\n0.507"),
           c("female\nmale", " 94\n106", "0.552\n0.473"  ),
           c("", "200", "0.510"))
dimnames(z) <- list(c("", "age", "sex", "Overall"),NULL)

print.char.matrix(z)