add_multirow: For use with latex summary tables

In EstherHerbert/Useful.functions: Some Useful Functions

For use with latex summary tables

Description

Turns duplicate rows which occur together into NAs and adds multirow to the remaining rows.

Usage

add_multirow(
  x,
  width = "*",
  pos = "t",
  rows = .,
  reverse = FALSE,
  hline = TRUE
)

Arguments

x	Character vector
width	Desired width of column to be passed to multirow in latex. e.g. "4cm"
pos	Character defining the vertical positioning of the text in the multirow block. Default is "t" - top. Other options are "c" for centre or "b" for bottom.
rows	Optional number of rows to use, if not given then add_multirow calculates how many rows to use.
reverse	If TRUE then all by the last duplicate will be removed. If rows isn't given then the calculated number of rows will be negated. This features is useful when colouring tables.
hline	Logical indicating whether a hline should be added to the start of each multirow.

Value

A character string/vector

Examples

    x <- c(rep("a", 5), rep("c", 2), rep("y", 7))
    add_multirow(x)
    add_multirow(x, reverse = TRUE)
    add_multirow(x, width = "2cm", pos = "c")

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