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userJT
userJT

Reputation: 11944

Removing extra characters in ascii output of a data.frame using ascii library in R

I like to use ascii output of my results.

There is always an extra 'h' in the header of my table which I and up removing manually.

I can not not figure out how to fix it in my code. See the code and result. E.g., how many cars have how many cilinders.

data(mtcars)
library(ascii)
ascii(as.data.frame(table(mtcars$cyl)),include.rownames=F,format='nice')


|================ 
h| Var1 h| Freq 
| 4    | 11   
| 6    | 7    
| 8    | 14   
|================

I would like to remove the extra h characters from the header. so that the output looks like this:

|================ 
| Var1 | Freq 
| 4    | 11   
| 6    | 7    
| 8    | 14   
|================

Is it a bug in ascii library or in my code? I want to do it via correct params of the ascii call rather then post processing the output, but would consider any "fix" if the proper solution is not possible.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 191

Answers (1)

IRTFM
IRTFM

Reputation: 263451

It's not entirely obvious but the ascii.data.frame function takes a header argument that when set to FALSE will eliminate the undesired "h"s. There's also an include.colnames argument, should one want to get rid of what I would have called the "header".

> ascii(as.data.frame(table(mtcars$cyl)),include.rownames=F,header=FALSE,format='nice')
|============== 
| Var1 | Freq 
| 4    | 11   
| 6    | 7    
| 8    | 14   
|==============

Upvotes: 2

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