Conflict between xtable and Hmisc when using Sweave?

One possible solution without renaming the functions is to add namespace to
either xtable or Hmisc.  Given the size of Hmisc, it probably would be much
easier to do that with xtable.

With namespace in xtable, you can do xtable:::label() to refer to the
label() in xtable specifically.

Andy

From: Of Sander Oom

Dear David,

I would like to use summarize(Hmisc) and print.xtable(xtable) in a
single Sweave document, but a conflict with the 'label' function
prohibits this at the moment!

Would you be able to correct the conflicting code? I will gladly test
the new package!

I have tried latex(Hmisc) to export the anova table, but
results are not
promising! I prefer xtable!!

Thanks,

Sander.

Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:

Sander Oom wrote:

Dear Frank,

I have a Sweave document in which I export anova (aov)

tables to Latex

and calculate some summary statistics with summarize{Hmisc} for a
graph (as in the example below).

I currently use the following code for the aov tables:
<<results=tex>>=
  tmp <- datGrassHC[datGrassHC$Loc > 0 & datGrassHC$Loc < 9 ,]
  tmpAov <- aov(Height~Geology*Altitude*Origin*BinInOut , data=tmp)
  tmpTable <- xtable (tmpAov ,
    caption="ANOVA table for vegetation height.",
    label="tab:AnovaHeight"
    )
  print.xtable(tmpTable, type="latex", floating=TRUE,
    table.placement="ht", caption.placement="top",
    latex.environments=c("center"))
    )
@

I used xtables, because it has a working aov example. I

would be happy

to use an alternative if I knew how! Would you have sample code to
illustrate how to export an aov table to Latex using latex{Hmisc}.

Thanks very much for your help,

Sander.

Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:

Sander Oom wrote:

Dear R users,

The Sweave code below runs fine, as it is. However, an

error occurs

when the line 'library(xtable)' is uncommented:
Error:  chunk 1
Error in "label<-"(`*tmp*`, value = "month") :
        no applicable method for "label<-"

Is anybody aware of this and knows a workaround?

Thanks,

Sander.

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\title{Sweave Test for summarize}
\author{Sander Oom}

\usepackage{a4wide}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{center}
<<fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE>>=
  # library(xtable)
  library(Hmisc)
  set.seed(111)
  dfr <- expand.grid(month=1:12, year=c(1997,1998), reps=1:100)
  month <- dfr$month
  year <- dfr$year
  y <- abs(month-6.5) + 2*runif(length(month)) + year-1997
  s <- summarize(y, llist(month,year), smedian.hilow,

conf.int=.5)

  print(xYplot(Cbind(y,Lower,Upper) ~ month, groups=year, data=s,
        keys='lines', method='alt', type='b'))
@
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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 > version

         _
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    1.0
year     2005
month    04
day      18
language R

I feel this is an xtable problem because Hmisc has being

using label

and label<- since 1991.

Frank

There are ways to make functions from one area override those from
another, but the real solution is to ask the xtable author

not to have

functions that conflict with the (older) Hmisc package.  -Frank

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