I don't see that being an option in xtable ... but looking at this: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33510/how-do-i-create-the-headings-for-this-multirow-multicolum-table ... it seems to be pretty straightforward to write a function that writes LaTeX output from your dataframe for the Tex multirow package.
B. On May 15, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Liao, Hongsheng <hl...@odu.edu> wrote: > Thanks for your response. I want to make a LaTeX table with a title and > subtitles. Attached is an example made using Word. I can use "xtable()" and > "print()" to generate a LaTeX table of it with "Age" as title. However, I > would like to make the second row "Interval (Inch) ........." as sub-title so > that both the title and sub-title can be repeated on every page in my long > table split among multiple pages. In LaTeX, "\endhead" can repeat title but > not the row of "Interval ..." because it is not title or sub-title. I can > copy and paste "Interval..." above "\endhead" to get the repetition of > "Interval...". However, I am trying to learn how to avoid "copy and paste", > instead, let LaTeX do the job automatically. I know that I am making the > question more complicated than my original one and hope it is clear enough > this time. > > Hongsheng (Hank) Liao, PhD. > Lab Manager > Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology > Old Dominion University > 757-683-4571 > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us] > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 10:43 AM > To: Liao, Hongsheng; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] How to make sub-headers in R > > I think you are not interpreting what is happening correctly. Column names > are labels used for purposes of referring to the data in your R code. That > they might also be useful in presenting data in output is coincidental. The > fact that many data input functions replace spaces in those labels with > periods should convince you of this fact. > > On the other hand, the options available when you output that table usually > depend on where you want to display the result, which you have not mentioned. > For example the tables package has many options for labeling columns if you > are generating HTML or LaTeX output. Or, you could write your own function to > generate any output format you want. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On May 15, 2015 6:55:17 AM PDT, "Liao, Hongsheng" <hl...@odu.edu> wrote: >> I know how to make one-row header for a data frame using "colnames". >> Is there any function to insert sub-header between the first row of the >> data and the header? Thanks >> >> Hongsheng (Hank) Liao, PhD. >> Lab Manager >> Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology Old Dominion University >> 757-683-4571 >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. > > > > -- > BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 03OseHrzs) is spam: > Spam: > https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=03OseHrzs&m=a356b01b838f&t=20150515&c=s > Not spam: > https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=03OseHrzs&m=a356b01b838f&t=20150515&c=n > Forget vote: > https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/canit/b.php?i=03OseHrzs&m=a356b01b838f&t=20150515&c=f > ------------------------------------------------------ > END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
