grid option in `ascii.data.frame`

[daroczig]

It seems that the grid parameter has no effect with Textile renderer. Is it a textile issue?
Reproducible example:

options(asciiType = "textile")

I made up a simple matrix:

df <- data.frame(x=1:2, y=3:4)

With grid on:

> ascii(df, grid='all')
|/1\1. |_. x    |_. y    |
|. 1 |. 1.00 |. 3.00 |
|. 2 |. 2.00 |. 4.00 |

Without grid:

> ascii(df, grid='none')
|/1\1. |_. x    |_. y    |
|. 1 |. 1.00 |. 3.00 |
|. 2 |. 2.00 |. 4.00 |

Checking the results with and w/o grid setting:

> identical(capture.output(ascii(df, grid='none')), capture.output(ascii(df, grid='all')))
[1] TRUE

[eusebe]

The output is based on this documentation: http://redcloth.org/textile/page-layout/#tables

I didn't find any "grid" option in this documentation, so there is no effect of grid argument in the ascii function. However, I don't use textile markup a lot, so I might be wrong...

[daroczig]

Thank you @eusebe for your kind feedback. That is right, I did not found any grid˛option even in Textile 2.2 :(

I thought of some manual way of adding borders to table cells, but this could be of course done easier with third-party tools (e.g. after converting to HTML with some JS tweaks).

Could it be an option to have custom texts in the style ascii parameter? I mean adding something like: ascii(..., style='{border: 1px}') like with asciidoc? E.g.:

print(ascii(df, style='{border: 1px}'), type='asciidoc')

[eusebe]

Good idea!