htmlTable-1.3 shows factors as integers instead of characters

[zeehio]

Thanks for this package. I was just trying it with a data frame and I found an issue:

    library(htmlTable)
    data(iris)
    head(iris)
    htmlTable(iris)

The generated table shows the Species column as an integer column. I expected it to be shown as a character.

As a workaround I can convert the factor to character

    iris_char <- iris
    iris_char$Species <- as.character(iris_char$Species)
    htmlTable(iris_char)

But it would be nice if htmlTable did that for me. Is it feasible to implement this?

[zeehio]

I don't know much about wrappers and methods. This seems to solve my issue:

library(htmlTable)
data(iris)

htmlTable.data.frame <- function(x, ...) {
  # Convert all factors to characters to print them as they expected
  i <- sapply(x, is.factor)
  x[i] <- lapply(x[i], as.character)

  htmlTable:::htmlTable.default(x,...)
}

htmlTable(iris)

[gforge]

I haven't thought about the factors - good suggestion, I'll try to add this. /M

[gforge]

Fix added to develop version