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From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
Subject: Re: table column with trailing 0s
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:59:40 -1000
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Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get a table generated from R to be pretty printed in
> org mode (and the export).
>
> Suppose, I have a table like this (typical statistical table):
>
> #+attr_latex: align=lr
> #+begin_src R :colnames yes :exports results
>   data.frame(parameter=c("param1", "param2", "param3", "param4"),
>              pvalue=c("0.80", "0.15", "*0.03*", "*< 0.01*"))
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> | parameter | pvalue   |
> |-----------+----------|
> | param1    | 0.8      |
> | param2    | 0.15     |
> | param3    | *0.03*   |
> | param4    | *< 0.01* |
>
> Here, org mode strips the trailing 0 from param1 which makes the
> table a lot less readable.
>
> How can I tell org not to trim the contents of string(!) columns?
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
>
Aloha Andreas,

I've been very happy using David Hajage's ascii package for R.  See
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.html#sec-4-2
for a few examples of how it works with tabular and non-tabular data.

hth,
Tom

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