Create a PDF table
Yes there is as you can place text into graphs and hence into pdf devices.
The nicest wrapper for this may be the textplot()
function in Greg Warnes' trusted gplots package. Below is the beginning of the examples section of its help page:
# show R version information
textplot(version)
# show the alphabet as a single string
textplot( paste(letters[1:26], collapse=" ") )
# show the alphabet as a matrix
textplot( matrix(letters[1:26], ncol=2))
### Make a nice 4 way display with two plots and two text summaries
data(iris)
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot( Sepal.Length ~ Species, data=iris, border="blue", col="cyan",
main="Boxplot of Sepal Length by Species" )
plotmeans(Sepal.Length ~ Species, data=iris, barwidth=2, connect=FALSE,
main="Means and 95\% Confidence Intervals\nof Sepal Length by Species")
info <- sapply(split(iris$Sepal.Length, iris$Species),
function(x) round(c(Mean=mean(x), SD=sd(x), N=gdata::nobs(x)),2))
textplot( info, valign="top" )
title("Sepal Length by Species")
reg <- lm( Sepal.Length ~ Species, data=iris )
textplot( capture.output(summary(reg)), valign="top")
title("Regression of Sepal Length by Species")
par(mfrow=c(1,1))
I recently wanted to do this but didn't like the output format of grideExtra
or textplot
so I wrote this function to do it in latex. It's a bit of a hack job and there are better ways with sweave
or knitr
, but you might find it useful to modify for your purposes:
createPDF <- function(xx, name=deparse(substitute(xx))){
require(xtable)
tt <- print(xtable(xx), type='latex')
texfile <- paste0('./reports/', name, '.tex')
cat(
'\\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\\date{}
\\begin{document}', tt, '\\end{document}', sep='',
file=texfile
)
## pdflatex from texlive package for linux converts .tex to .pdf
system(paste0('pdflatex ', '-output-directory ./reports ', texfile))
}
see also grid.table
in gridExtra
, using grid graphics.
There is also the addtable2plot function in the plotrix package.