[R] printing tabular data nicely

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

wwsprague at ucdavis.edu wrote:

> Hi R-heplers,
> 
> I would like to print various matrices, dataframes, tables, etc to 
> files, preferably nicely formatted postscript for import into papers. Is 
> there a way to do this?
> 
> I know ?cat, ?writeLines, ?format, ?paste.  But I am not sure of a good 
> combination of these in order to get a nice looking table of information.
> 
> Any ideas?  I guess I want (almost) publication ready output, just like 
> you get for "plot"...
> 
> (I *don't* want to print to the console, btw)
> 
> Thx again.
> W
> 

Take a look at the xtable package. I'm not sure if you can get xtable to 
print directly to a file. If not you can use xtable in conjunction with 
?sink.

--sundar