How to make a banner table.

I have a dataframe with the following variables:

idnum	area	gender	race	etc.

I would like to make a table that looks like

area	gender	race
	M  F	B W A
1	4  5	3 5 1
2	6  7    4 6 3

etc.

Basically, I want to make a single broad table with a number of sub-set
tables. I have tried:

Well you are asked to "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, 
reproducible code", and I see nothing here I can reproduce.

But here is a start:

tab1 <- xtabs(~agegp+tobgp,esoph)
tab2 <- xtabs(~agegp+alcgp,esoph)
cat(paste(capture.output(tab1),capture.output(tab2),'\n'))

tobgp        alcgp
  agegp   0-9g/day 10-19 20-29 30+ agegp   0-39g/day 40-79 80-119 120+
    25-34        4     4     3   4   25-34         4     4      3    4
    35-44        4     4     4   3   35-44         4     4      4    3
    45-54        4     4     4   4   45-54         4     4      4    4
    55-64        4     4     4   4   55-64         4     4      4    4
    65-74        4     4     4   3   65-74         4     3      4    4
    75+          4     4     1   2   75+           3     4      2    2


It is left as an exercise to figure out how to redo the first line to move 
'alcgp' over '  0-3' and how to delete the redundant 'agegp; column. See

 	?nchar
 	?substring

and maybe

 	?sprintf

for some pointers.

HTH,

Chuck

cbind(table(area, gender), table(area, race))

But, when I do this, I lose the labels gender / race. This makes it a
lot harder to understand my factor labels. when I use cbind, I get this:

M  F B W A
1 4  5 3 5 1
2 6  7 4 6 3

Although, it is technically correct, I really want to keep my factor
labels. I also tried this with xtabs and get the same results. Any
ideas? I saw a relatively recent thread asking a similar question, but
the proposed solution did not work for me, so I thought I would ask the
questions again.

If I am missing someting terribly obvious, I apologize.

thanks.


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