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Generate a multi-page landscape LaTeX data summary table

Source: R/table_utils.R
generate_data_table.Rd

Produces a landscape longtable listing all collected incubation period observations across pathogens, with one bold section header row per pathogen, a khaki-coloured column header, and a DOI column.

Usage

generate_data_table(
  datasets,
  caption = "Collected incubation period datasets by pathogen.",
  label = "tab:data_summary",
  digits = 1L
)

Arguments

datasets

A named list of pathogen datasets. Each element must be a named list of entry lists (e.g. list(Nipah = datasets_Nipah, MVD = datasets_MVD)). Pathogens appear in the order of names(datasets).

caption

LaTeX \caption{} string.

label

LaTeX \label{} string.

digits

Integer. Decimal places for numeric summaries (default 1).

Value

A single character string containing the complete landscape longtable environment, ready to paste into a manuscript.

Details

Each dataset entry produces one table row. The Summary column reports:

  • Type A (median + range): "Median: X (Range: lo--hi)"

  • Type B (median + IQR): "Median: X (IQR: Q1--Q3)"

  • Type C (mean + SD): "Mean: X (SD: s)"

  • Type D (frequency table): prefixed Freq. table., then weighted median and observed range

  • Type E (interval-censored frequency table): prefixed Freq. table (interval-censored)., then overall range

For Type D entries where n is absent, \(n\) is computed as sum(freq_count).

Required LaTeX packages (add to preamble):


  \usepackage{longtable}
  \usepackage{array}
  \usepackage[table]{xcolor}
  \usepackage{pdflscape}
  \newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{#1}}
  \newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

See also

generate_results_table(), generate_results_table_split()