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 & 6making their combination a natural extension
t1 + t1
would translate to
1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 & 5 & 6 & 1 & 2 & 3Recasting
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.
