R Language Publishing Formatting tables
Example
Here, "table" is meant broadly (covering data.frame, table,
Printing to plain text
Printing (as seen in the console) might suffice for a plain-text document to be viewed in monospaced font:
Note: Before making the example data below, make sure you're in an empty folder you can write to. Run getwd() and read ?setwd if you need to change folders.
..w = options()$width
options(width = 500) # reduce text wrapping
sink(file = "mytab.txt")
summary(mtcars)
sink()
options(width = ..w)
rm(..w)
Printing delimited tables
Writing to CSV (or another common format) and then opening in a spreadsheet editor to apply finishing touches is another option:
Note: Before making the example data below, make sure you're in an empty folder you can write to. Run getwd() and read ?setwd if you need to change folders.
write.csv(mtcars, file="mytab.csv")
Further resources
knitr::kable- stargazer
tables::tabular- texreg
- xtable
