r - Plot a data frame as a table

Question

I am moving away from Word/Excel tables and trying to generate a table in R. I have a data frame that I'd like to simply print as a plot, while being able to shade/colour cells and generally play with the aesthetics.

x <- data.frame(row.names=paste("Name",1:10))
x[,1] <- 1:10
x[,2] <- sample(1:100,10)
x[,3] <- sample(LETTERS[1:26],10)
colnames(x) <- c("Value 1", "Value 2", "Label")

View(x) provides the exact format I'd like my table, just as a save-able plot.

I tried

plot(x,type="h")

But received an error:

Error in plot.default(...) : formal argument "type" matched by multiple actual arguments

I have seen how to output tables with two columns, but how can I plot the data frame as-is? Bonus points for showing how to stick that table below another scatter plot that I have created, so that the output ggsave has the scatter plot with the table under it.

Answer 1

Since I am going for the bonus points:

   #Plot your table with table Grob in the library(gridExtra)
   ss <- tableGrob(x)

   #Make a scatterplot of your data
   k <- ggplot(x,aes(x=x$"Value 1",y=x$"Value 2")) + 
   geom_point()

   #Arrange them as you want with grid.arrange
   grid.arrange(k,ss)

You can change the number of rows, columns, height and so on if you need to.

Good luck with it

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gridExtra/gridExtra.pdf