I want to have R display the data it gives me from the summary() function in a table so I can easily share this. I am currently just doing summary() in the console and then taking a screenshot, but I would rather have this generated as a nice table just like all of my graphs are. Any ideas?
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chl
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1I've updated the title of your question to reflect its content. Otherwise, it is a duplicated of Graphical data overview (summary) function in R. – chl Aug 08 '12 at 01:12
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You may want to read this awesome post on tables: Some notes on making effective tables by CV contributor @AndyW. Much of it is general information about tables (albeit awesome general information), but there is some specific to making tables in R w/ $\LaTeX$ as well. – gung - Reinstate Monica Aug 08 '12 at 03:52
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If you have the R package Hmisc and a working latex installation you can do:
x=rnorm(1000)
y=rnorm(1000)
lm1=lm(y~x)
slm1=summary(lm1)
latex(slm1)
It works the same with datasets,
latex(summary(cars))
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1An even better solution is to directly use
summary.formula, e.g.print(summary(~ x + y), prmsd=TRUE, digits=1). Thelatexcommand assumes the OP has a working $\TeX$ installation. It is often convenient to just output plain text, like this:capture.output(print(summary(~ x + y), prmsd=TRUE, digits=1), file="out.txt"). – chl Aug 08 '12 at 01:01 -
2Another approach to outputting plain text that works well is to use ?sink. Eg,
sink(file=<name>, type="output"); <functions>; sink(), then a text file will exist in the working directory with whatever would have been the output of the functions used. – gung - Reinstate Monica Aug 08 '12 at 03:57