How to Format an Output Table using Latex?

Question

I was working on some categorical variables and created a contingency table using the following code:

mytable <- table(Gender, Income)

The output looks like below (which is not nice-looking):

  Work.Status
Gender   Employed Full-time Employed Part-time Unemployed
  Male                  433                 35         29
  Female                427                174        247

Is there any way that I can format this table to make it better looking (e.g. change the font, color, and size of the variables)? I tried a few methods from the web, but didn't get the desired results....

r.bot · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-28 09:11:44Z

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It isn't entirely clear from your question what you want to achieve. Is this an R to latex question or is it simply a formatting in latex question?

I favour the xtable package in R for taking tables in R to latex. A very quick example for categorical data below. The knitr package is also excellent for combining R with Latex output.

   library(xtable)
   data(tli)
   head(tli)
   table(tli$sex, tli$grade)
   print(xtable(table(tli$sex, tli$grade), booktabs = TRUE))

Which returns

% latex table generated in R 3.0.0 by xtable 1.7-1 package
% Thu Nov 28 09:00:24 2013
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{rrrrrrr}
  \hline
 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 \\ 
  \hline
F &   6 &   9 &   8 &  11 &  10 &   7 \\ 
  M &   9 &   6 &   7 &  12 &   8 &   7 \\ 
   \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

answered Nov 28, 2013 at 9:11

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