Formatting data for output in a table can be a bit of a pain in R. The package formattable by Kun Ren and Kenton Russell provides some intuitive functions to create good looking tables for the R console or HTML quickly. The package home page demonstrates the functions with illustrative examples nicely.There are a few points I really like:the functions accounting, currency, percent transform numbers into better human readable outputcells can be highlighted by adding color informationcontextual icons can be added, e.g. from Glyphiconsoutput can be displayed in RStudio's viewer paneThe CRAN Task View: Reproducible Research lists other packages as well that help to create tables for web output, such as compareGroups, DT, htmlTable, HTMLUtils, hwriter, Kmisc, knitr, lazyWeave, SortableHTMLTables, texreg and ztable. Yet, if I am not mistaken, most of these packages focus more on generating complex tables with multi-columns rows, footnotes, math notation, etc, than the points I mentioned above.Finally, here is a little formattable example from my side:Session InfoR version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)Running under: OS X 10.11.2 (El Capitan)locale:[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8attached base packages:[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [7] base other attached packages:[1] formattable_0.1.5loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] shiny_0.12.2.9006 htmlwidgets_0.5.1 R6_2.1.1 [4] rsconnect_0.3.79 markdown_0.7.7 htmltools_0.3 [7] tools_3.2.3 yaml_2.1.13 Rcpp_0.12.2 [10] highr_0.5.1 knitr_1.12 jsonlite_0.9.19 [13] digest_0.6.9 xtable_1.8-0 httpuv_1.3.3 [16] mime_0.4 This post was originally published on mages’ blog.
