[R] Table to pdf

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Ana Conesa wrote:

>    I am new in R world and I haven't been able to find the answer to my
>    question in the documentation I looked up so far. I hope someone can
>    help. In the R function I am writing I have set the graphical output
>    to be saved into a pdf file. I would also like to include in this file
>    a table with some data, however I can't find the way to direct a table
>    to a graphics file.  Does anyone know the way to address this?

But a table is not a graphic!  Think of the graphics pdf file as something 
to be included in another document, not the final file.

Setting tables in PDF is not an R question.  But there is some help 
available in packages Hmisc and xtable to set tables in latex, which 
pdflatex can then turn into PDF.

The alternative would be to make a graphical representation of the table 
via calls to text etc, but that makes it much harder to achieve good 
typography.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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