Coerce createTable object to dataframe

[Shmulik Tiosano]

Hello,

I would like to know if there is a way to coerce createTable object to a dataframe, in order to present it via knitr in a word notebook.

If i try to use as.data.frame on a createTable class object (e.g., "table_1"), i get the following warning (reproduced from R 3.2.2):

Error in as.data.frame.default(table_1) : 

  cannot coerce class ""compareGroups"" to a data.frame

My final goal, as I mentioned, is to use createTable output to a word notebook, but when I use knitr::kable on a createTable object I get the same warning as mentioned above.

A quick-and-dirty hack I found to solve this problem is to export the createTable to csv by export2csv and then reading it again as dataframe, following by presenting it with knitr::kable elegantly.

Is there a better way to coerce the object to dataframe, or even better - use compareGroups smoothly with knitr?

Thanks!

S.

[Isaac Subirana]

In the next version of the package (3.1) it will be possible to export tables to markdown format in order to be placed in a Rmd chunks. This function is called export2md. This is not available in CRAN yet but hope it will be soon.

If you need it very urgently, please, email to package mantainer and you will receive this new version.

Isaac.

[Shmulik Tiosano]

Thank you! It's a great idea, very helpful for my workflow.

No urgency, I'll wait for the CRAN update.

Best,

S.

[shylock....@gmail.com]

Has this been fixed? I tried using the knitr::kable function and got the same error

[Shmulik Tiosano]

Yes, just use export2md(), that way you don't have to use kable().

[tyl...@gmail.com]

Sorry, I'd still be interested in knowing if there was a way to convert directly to a dataframe, since I frequently send data over to Google Docs for sharing. Thanks!