Re: formatting table with integers and floats in a column
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- Subject: [mg61359] Re: formatting table with integers and floats in a column
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve_usenet at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:29:25 -0400 (EDT)
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This does what you want: PaddedForm[TableForm[Transpose[{statNames, statNumbers}]],3] Steve Luttrell "Murray Eisenberg" <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote in message news:disloi$mjg$1 at smc.vnet.net... >I have a 2-column table whose first column consists of strings -- > > statNames = {"N", "Max", "Min", "Mean", "Std.dev.", "Median"}; > > -- and a column of corresponding numbers: > > statNumbers = {40, 103, 2, 56.8, 22.5, 59}; > > If I use > > TableForm[Transpose[{statNames, statNumbers}]] > > then of course all the numbers will be left-aligned on their leftmost > digits. > > I want to format the numbers in the table so that they will appear as > follows: > > N 40 > Max 103 > Min 2 > Mean 56.8 > Std.dev. 22.5 > Median 59 > > Notice that I want the integers to appear as integers -- WITHOUT any > trailing decimal point; but the alignment is to be as if the numbers > were aligned on the decimal points including the implicit, but > unprinted, decimal points in the integers. > > How?? > > I've tried various things with mapping NumberForm onto the individual > numbers but cannot quite get the correct effect. > > -- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 >
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