i knew it was something stunningly stupid. Thanks a lot.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: marc_schwa...@me.com
> Sent: Fri, 24 May 2013 14:41:52 -0500
> To: jrkrid...@inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R] xtable() with booktabs option problem
>
> On May 24, 2013, at 2:36 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote:
>
>> I could have sworn that yesterday xtable(file, booktabs = TRUE) was
>> giving me toprule , midrule and bottomrule outout. Today :
>>
>> library(xtable)
>> aa <- table( sample(letters[1:9], 100, replace = TRUE))
>> xtable(aa,
>> booktabs = TRUE)
>> gives me
>>
>> \begin{table}[ht]
>> \centering
>> \begin{tabular}{rr}
>> \hline
>> & V1 \\
>> \hline
>> a & 15 \\
>> b & 11 \\
>> c & 13 \\
>> d & 14 \\
>> e & 10 \\
>> f & 12 \\
>> g & 10 \\
>> h & 6 \\
>> i & 9 \\
>> \hline
>> \end{tabular}
>> \end{table}
>>
>> What stunningly stupid thing am I doing?
>>
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
> John,
>
> The 'booktabs' argument is for print.xtable(), not xtable(). Easy
> mistake.
>
> Thus:
>
>> print(xtable(aa), booktabs = TRUE)
> % latex table generated in R 3.0.1 by xtable 1.7-1 package
> % Fri May 24 14:40:07 2013
> \begin{table}[ht]
> \centering
> \begin{tabular}{rr}
> \toprule
> & V1 \\
> \midrule
> a & 9 \\
> b & 8 \\
> c & 17 \\
> d & 9 \\
> e & 7 \\
> f & 16 \\
> g & 13 \\
> h & 10 \\
> i & 11 \\
> \bottomrule
> \end{tabular}
> \end{table}
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
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