On 13-04-22 10:40 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

On Apr 22, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Santosh wrote:

Dear Rxperts,
q <- data.frame(p=rep(c("A","B"),each=10,len=30),
a=rep(c(1,2,3),each=10),id=seq(30),
b=round(runif(30,10,20)),
c=round(runif(30,40,70)))
The operation below...
tabular(((p=factor(p))*(a=factor(a))+1) ~ (N = 1) + (b + c)*
(mean+sd),data=q)
yields some rows of NAs and NaN as shown below

             b               c
p a   N  mean  sd    mean  sd
A 1   10 16.30 2.497 52.30  9.358
   2    0   NaN    NA   NaN     NA
   3   10 15.60 2.716 60.30  8.001
B 1    0   NaN    NA   NaN     NA
   2   10 15.40 2.366 57.70 10.414
   3    0   NaN    NA   NaN     NA
   All 30 15.77 2.473 56.77  9.601

How do I remove the rows having N=0 ?
I would like the resulting table look like..
             b               c
p a   N  mean  sd    mean  sd
A 1   10 16.30 2.497 52.30  9.358
     3   10 15.60 2.716 60.30  8.001
B  2   10 15.40 2.366 57.70 10.414
   All 30 15.77 2.473 56.77  9.601

Here's a bit of a hack:

tabular( (`p a`=interaction(p,a, drop=TRUE, sep=" ")) ~ (N = 1) + (b + c)*
     (mean+sd),data=q)

         b           c
  p a N  mean sd     mean sd
  A 1 10 12.8 0.7888 52.1 8.020
  B 2 10 16.3 3.0569 54.9 8.711
  A 3 10 14.6 3.7771 56.5 6.980

I have been rather hoping that Duncan Murdoch would have noticed the earlier 
thread, but maybe he can comment on whether there is a more direct route/


This isn't something that the package is designed to handle: if you say p*a, it wants all combinations of p and a.

If I wanted a table like that, I'd use a different hack. One possibility is to create that interaction column, but display it as just the initial letter, labelled p, and then add another column to contain the a values as data. It would be tricky to get the formatting right.

Another possibility is to generate the whole table with the N=0 rows, and then post-process it to remove those rows, and adjust the row labels appropriately. This approach probably gives the nicer result, but the post-processing is quite messy: you need to delete some rows from the table, from its rowLabels attribute, and from the justification attributes of both the table and its rowLabels. (I should add a [ method to the package to hide this messiness.)

A third hack is less of a hack: don't do that. Just format the mean and sd in a way that displays the NA and NaN values as blanks.

Duncan Murdoch

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