Re: Re: formatting table with integers and floats in a column
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- Subject: [mg61418] Re: [mg61369] Re: formatting table with integers and floats in a column
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:45:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Unfortunatley, that does NOT do it! It LEFT-aligns the numbers. I need
them aligned as if they were aligned on the decimal points -- except
that the decimal points are not actually shown on the integers.
Ray Koopman wrote:
> How about something like
>
> myForm[x_Integer,{n_,f_}] := ToString@NumberForm[x, n-f ];
> myForm[x_, {n_,f_}] := ToString@NumberForm[x,{n,f}]
>
> then
>
> TableForm[Transpose[{statNames, myForm[#,{4,1}]&/@statNumbers}]]
>
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>
--
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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- Re: formatting table with integers and floats in a column
- From: "Ray Koopman" <koopman@sfu.ca>
- Re: formatting table with integers and floats in a column