Publishing

There are many ways of formatting R code, tables and graphs for publishing.

Formatting tables

Here, "table" is meant broadly (covering data.frame, table,

Printing to plain text

Printing (as seen in the console) might suffice for a plain-text document to be viewed in monospaced font:

Note: Before making the example data below, make sure you're in an empty folder you can write to. Run getwd() and read ?setwd if you need to change folders.

..w = options()$width
options(width = 500) # reduce text wrapping
sink(file = "mytab.txt")
   summary(mtcars)
sink()
options(width = ..w) 
rm(..w)

Printing delimited tables

Writing to CSV (or another common format) and then opening in a spreadsheet editor to apply finishing touches is another option:

Note: Before making the example data below, make sure you're in an empty folder you can write to. Run getwd() and read ?setwd if you need to change folders.

write.csv(mtcars, file="mytab.csv")

Further resources

• knitr::kable
• stargazer
• tables::tabular
• texreg (opens new window)
• xtable

Formatting entire documents

Sweave from the utils package allows for formatting code, prose, graphs and tables together in a LaTeX document.

Further Resources

• Knitr and RMarkdown

Remarks

R users often want to publish analysis and results in a reproducible way. See Reproducible R (opens new window) for details.