Dear all, another ftable problem, now related to formatC. One typically would like to format entries in an ftable (adjust digits, replace NA, ...) before format() is applied to convert the formatted ftable to an object which xtable can deal with. The output of xtable can then be used within a LaTeX table.
The problem I face is that the ftable entries [numeric] change their mode when one of the operations "adjust digits" or "replace NA" is applied. Here is a minimal example: ## first adjusting the format, then trying to remove NA (ft <- ftable(Titanic)) # ftable ft[1,1] <- NA # create an NA entry to show the behavior is.numeric(ft) # => is numeric ft. <- formatC(ft, digits=1, format="f") # adjust format is.numeric(ft.) # => not numeric anymore => one can not further use is.na() etc. ft.[is.na(ft.)] <- "my.Command.To.Deal.With.NA" # does not work because is.na() does not find NA ft. # (of course) still contains NA ## first remove NA, then trying to adjust the format (ft <- ftable(Titanic)) # ftable ft[1,1] <- NA ft[is.na(ft)] <- "my.LaTeX.Code.To.Deal.With.NA" is.character(ft) # => now character, adjusting the format of the numbers with formatC not possible anymore ft formatC(ft, digits=1, format="f") # (of course) not working anymore How can I accomplish both (example-)tasks without changing the mode of the ftable entries? Note: I would like to keep the ftable structure since this nicely converts to a LaTeX table later on. Cheers, Marius ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
