texblocks
Lets be frank, it is not fun to create TeX tables from scratch.
In R there are a few ways to get around this task by converting a
data.frame into latex tables via
huxtable,
pixiedust and
knitr.
But many times you either don’t have or don’t want to go through a
data.frame to get to your table. {texblocks} is an attempt to create a
natural language with simple operators to quickly create reproducible
TeX tables.
Idea
Assemble LaTeX tabular environments using simple operations.
This would enable us to create any table layout with a consistent user API.
Proposed Syntax
For a rendered vingette see basics
Defining a new class of R element tb that is the basic structure of
the language.
Joining elements
Let t1 and t2 be two objects of class tb.
t1 + t2 |
t1 / t2 |
|
Using this language creating a table can be broken down to cell level
t1 =(++) / (++)
would be translated to
1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 & 5 & 6
making their combination a natural extension
t1 + t1
would translate to
1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 & 5 & 6 & 1 & 2 & 3
Recasting
Converting to tb class
texblocks can also be converted back into
tibbles
and matrices for further data manipulation.
Vectorizing
texblocks can also be
replicated
and used as a list with purrr verbs and base R
*apply
functions.
Mutations & Aesthetics
For a rendered vingette see aesthetics
TODO
A set of elements can be defined to control the table and cell level attributes, eg
- font: colour, size, face
- background colour