'runs' argument in spanFlexTableColumns

[eusebe]

Hi,

spanFlexTableRows has a (very usefull) runs argument for merging successive rows. I think this could be usefull to have the same argument in spanFlexTableColumns.

One user case, if someone wants to colspan the status row in this transposed table:

library( boot )
library( plyr )

data(melanoma)

melanoma$Status = c( "Melanoma", "Alive" , "Non-melanoma" )[melanoma$status]
melanoma$Gender = ifelse( melanoma$sex > 0, "Male", "Female" )
melanoma$Ulceration = ifelse( melanoma$ulcer > 0, "Present", "Absent" )

data = ddply( melanoma, .(Status, Ulceration), summarize
  , n = length( thickness )
  , Mean = mean( thickness, na.rm = T )
  , SD = sd( thickness, na.rm = T )
  , Median = median( thickness, na.rm = T )
  , Min = min( thickness, na.rm = T )
  , Max = max( thickness, na.rm = T )
  , Missing = sum( is.na( thickness ) )
)
row.names( data ) = paste( "id", 1:nrow(data) )
t(data)
           id 1       id 2       id 3       id 4       id 5           id 6          
Status     "Alive"    "Alive"    "Melanoma" "Melanoma" "Non-melanoma" "Non-melanoma"
Ulceration "Absent"   "Present"  "Absent"   "Present"  "Absent"       "Present"     
n          "92"       "42"       "16"       "41"       " 7"           " 7"          
Mean       "1.634565" "3.581190" "2.702500" "4.938780" "2.097143"     "5.338571"    
SD         "1.927020" "2.577971" "3.349646" "3.497797" "1.928486"     "4.327511"    
Median     "1.13"     "3.06"     "1.94"     "4.04"     "1.45"         "4.84"        
Min        "0.10"     "0.32"     "0.32"     "0.97"     "0.65"         "0.16"        
Max        "12.88"    "12.24"    "14.66"    "17.42"    " 6.12"        "12.56"       
Missing    "0"        "0"        "0"        "0"        "0"            "0"    

[davidgohel]

Hi,

Agree with that. It should not be hard, I will code it in the following version.

Thanks for the suggestion.

David

[eusebe]

Thanks!

[davidgohel]

Hi,

It's on github.

David

[eusebe]

and it works perfectly. Thanks again.