alternatives to latex() or xtable() ?

Hello,

 My guess is that you are actually talking about the numSummary function in
Rcmdr, not in abind. In that case, you can look how the structure of the
output is like:

 > str( numSummary( iris[,1:4] ) )

 List of 4
  $ type      : num 3
  $ table     : num [1:4, 1:7] 5.843 3.057 3.758 1.199 0.828 ...
   ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
   .. ..$ : chr [1:4] "Sepal.Length" "Sepal.Width" "Petal.Length"
"Petal.Width"
   .. ..$ : chr [1:7] "mean" "sd" "0%" "25%" ...
  $ statistics: chr [1:3] "mean" "sd" "quantiles"
  $ n         : Named num [1:4] 150 150 150 150
   ..- attr(*, "names")= chr [1:4] "Sepal.Length" "Sepal.Width"
"Petal.Length" "Petal.Width"
  - attr(*, "class")= chr "numSummary"

 and then use the table element from it:

 > xtable( numSummary( iris[,1:4] )$table )

 % latex table generated in R 2.6.0 by xtable 1.5-2 package
 % Wed Dec 05 12:16:44 2007
 \begin{table}[ht]
 \begin{center}
 \begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrr}
   \hline
  & mean & sd & 0\% & 25\% & 50\% & 75\% & 100\% \\
   \hline
 Sepal.Length & 5.84 & 0.83 & 4.30 & 5.10 & 5.80 & 6.40 & 7.90 \\
   Sepal.Width & 3.06 & 0.44 & 2.00 & 2.80 & 3.00 & 3.30 & 4.40 \\
   Petal.Length & 3.76 & 1.77 & 1.00 & 1.60 & 4.35 & 5.10 & 6.90 \\
   Petal.Width & 1.20 & 0.76 & 0.10 & 0.30 & 1.30 & 1.80 & 2.50 \\
    \hline
 \end{tabular}
 \end{center}
 \end{table}

 Otherwise, you can define your own xtable.numSummary function that would
wrap this up. (This one does not do everything as it does not take into
account the groups argument of numSummary, so you might want to do something
else if you have used it, ...)

 > xtable.numSummary <- function( x, ...){

 +  out <- cbind( x$table, n = x$n )
 +  xtable( out, ... )
 + }

 >  xtable( numSummary( iris[,1:4] ) )

 % latex table generated in R 2.6.0 by xtable 1.5-2 package
 % Wed Dec 05 12:20:13 2007
 \begin{table}[ht]
 \begin{center}
 \begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrrr}
   \hline
  & mean & sd & 0\% & 25\% & 50\% & 75\% & 100\% & n \\
   \hline
 Sepal.Length & 5.84 & 0.83 & 4.30 & 5.10 & 5.80 & 6.40 & 7.90 & 150.00 \\
   Sepal.Width & 3.06 & 0.44 & 2.00 & 2.80 & 3.00 & 3.30 & 4.40 & 150.00 \\
   Petal.Length & 3.76 & 1.77 & 1.00 & 1.60 & 4.35 & 5.10 & 6.90 & 150.00 \\
   Petal.Width & 1.20 & 0.76 & 0.10 & 0.30 & 1.30 & 1.80 & 2.50 & 150.00 \\
    \hline
 \end{tabular}
 \end{center}
 \end{table}

 Hope this helps,
 Romain