I often write papers with correlation matrices. I would like to be able to export the correlation matrix to Excel in xls or xlsx format. I would also like to format in bold correlations that meet a threshold (eg, > .2). I was thinking maybe XLConnect might provide the functionality.
In order to make the example simple, assume the data frame is as follows, and assume I want to bold all cells greater than 5.
x <- data.frame(matrix(1:9, nrow = 3))
# > x
# X1 X2 X3
# 1 1 4 7
# 2 2 5 8
# 3 3 6 9
As an aside, I note that solutions have been proposed for cellbolding for markdown:
I've also found this answer, but it is not a very general solution in that it takes quite a bit to adapt it to the general task of taking a data frame and a formatting rule:
export data frames to Excel via xlsx with conditional formatting
I created the following function that was adapted from @jota's answer here
xlsx_boldcells <- function(x, matches, file = "test.xlsx", sheetname = "sheet1") {
# x data.frame or matrix
# matches: logical data.frame or matrix of the same size indicating which cells to bold
# copy data frame to work book and load workbook
require(xlsx)
write.xlsx(x, file, sheetName=sheetname)
wb <- loadWorkbook(file)
# specify conditional formatting
# Note: this could be modified to apply different formatting
# see ?CellStyle
fo <- Font(wb, isBold = TRUE)
cs <- CellStyle(wb, font=fo)
# Get cell references
sheets <- getSheets(wb) # get all sheets
sheet <- sheets[[sheetname]] # get specific sheet
rows <- getRows(sheet, rowIndex=2:(nrow(x)+1)) # get rows
cells <- getCells(rows, colIndex = 2:(ncol(x)+1))
# Matches to indexes
indm <- data.frame(which(matches, arr.ind = TRUE, useNames = FALSE))
names(indm) <- c("row", "col")
# +1 required because row and column names occupy first rows and columns
indm$index <- paste(indm$row + 1, indm$col + 1, sep = ".")
# apply cell style
lapply(indm$index, function(ii) setCellStyle(cells[[ii]],cs))
# save workbook
saveWorkbook(wb, file)
}
Thus, it can be applied to proposed problem:
xlsx_boldcells(x, x > 5)
yielding:
Or it could be applied to the common correlation problem (ie, bolding large correlations, eg, greater than .6) as follows:
data(mtcars)
cors <- round(cor(mtcars), 2)
xlsx_boldcells(cors, abs(cors) > .6 & cors!=1, file = "cormatrix.xlsx")
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