latex_table_cont: Produce (LaTeX) Summaries for Continuous Variables

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Produce (LaTeX) Summaries for Continuous Variables

Description

The function produces LaTeX tables with summary statistics for continous variables. It makes use of the booktabs package in LaTeX to obtain tables with a nice layout.

Usage

latex.table.cont(..., caption = NULL, label = NULL,
    table = c("tabular", "longtable"), align = NULL,
    floating = FALSE, center = TRUE)

Arguments

...	arguments for summarize. See there for details.
caption	(optional) character string. Caption of LaTeX table. Note that captions are suported for all tables (see also details below).
label	(optional) character string. Label of LaTeX table specified as \label{"label"}.
table	character string. LaTeX table format, currently either "tabular" (default) or "longtable".
align	character string. LaTeX alignment of table rows, per default "llr...r", where "r" is repeated ncol - 1 times.
floating	logical (default: FALSE). Determines whether the table is a floating object (i.e. use a table environment or not). Note that a longtable cannot be a floating object but captions can be used.
center	logical (default: TRUE). Determines if table should be centered.

Details

This function is deprecated and only available for backward comaptibility. Use summarize for more flexibility.

The output requires \usepackage{booktabs} in the LaTeX file.

Captions can be added to both, longtables and tabulars. In the latter case, captions are also suported if the table is no floating object. In this case, the LaTeX package capt-of is required.

Value

The output is printed with LaTeX style syntax highlighting to be used e.g. in Sweave chunks with results=tex.

Author(s)

Benjamin Hofner

See Also

latex.table.fac and get_option

Examples

## Example requires package nlme to be installed and loaded
if (require("nlme")) {
    ## Use dataset Orthodont
    data(Orthodont, package = "nlme")

    ## Get summary for continuous variables
    latex.table.cont(Orthodont)

    ## Change statistics to display
    latex.table.cont(Orthodont, quantiles = FALSE)
    latex.table.cont(Orthodont, count = FALSE, quantiles = FALSE)
    latex.table.cont(Orthodont, mean_sd = FALSE)

    ## Show column 'Missing' even if no missings are present
    latex.table.cont(Orthodont, show.NAs = TRUE)

    ## Change variables to display
    latex.table.cont(Orthodont, variables = "age")

    ## What happens in the display if we introduce some missing values:
    set.seed(1907)
    Orthodont$age[sample(nrow(Orthodont), 20)] <- NA
    latex.table.cont(Orthodont)
}

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