stargazer left align LaTeX table columns

Question

stargazer automatically centres values within tables. How can I left align the columns?

Put this code in an .Rnw file and use knitr to

Answer 1

As has been pointed out in the comments, you could either post-process the output of stargazer, or use xtable. I'll demonstrate both approaches.

1. post-processing: Replace your code chuck with the following two code chunks

   <>=
   library(stargazer)
   tab <- stargazer(iris[1:10,4:5], summary  = FALSE) 
   @
   
   <>=
   collapse <- function(st) paste(st, collapse="")
   st <- gsub(collapse(rep("c", 3)), collapse(rep("l",3)), tab)
   cat(st[4:24])
   @
   

2. xtable: After installing the xtable package, you could use this as your code chuck

   <>=
   library(xtable)
   print(xtable(iris[1:10,4:5], align="lll", caption=""))
   @
   

I think the xtable approach is probably easier though