Dear all,
I haven't received any feedback so far on my proposal to make "justify" argument available in stats:::format.ftable
Is this list the appropriate place for this kind of proposal?
Yes, it is.. Actually such a post is even a "role model" post for R-devel.
I hope this follow-up to my message won't be taken as rude. Of course it's not meant to be, but I'm not used to the R mailing lists...
well, there could be said much, and many stories told here ... ;-)
Thank you in advance for your comments,
Best,
Thomas
The main reasons for "no reaction" (for such nice post) probably are combination of the following
- we are busy
- if we have time, we think other things are more exciting
- we have not used ftable much/at all and are not interested.
Even though the first 2 apply to me, I'll have a 2nd look into your post now, and may end up well agreeing with your proposal.
Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich and R Core team
Dear all,
justify argument is hard coded in format.ftable:
cbind(apply(LABS, 2L, format, justify = "left"),
apply(DATA, 2L, format, justify = "right"))
It would be useful to have the possibility to modify the argument between c("left", "right", "centre", "none") as in format.default.
The lines could be changed to:
if(length(justify) != 2)
stop("justify must be length 2")
cbind(apply(LABS, 2L, format, justify = justify[1]),
apply(DATA, 2L, format, justify = justify[2]))
The argument justify could defaults to c("left", "right") for backward compatibility.
It could then allow:
ftab <- ftable(wool + tension ~ breaks, warpbreaks)
format.ftable(ftab, justify = c("none", "none"))
Best regards,
Thomas