Does format(..., justify = "left") on a dataframe also left-justify the column names?

Question

I'm relatively new to R, so hopefully this is an easy fix.

Here's my problem:

x <- data.frame(c("Thing1", "Thing2", "Thing3", "Thing4", "Thing5"), c("Sizeable line of text", "more text", "I hope this aligns", "something", "help me"))
colnames(x) <- c("T", "Text")
format(x, justify = "left")

       T                  Text
1 Thing1 Sizeable line of text
2 Thing2 more text            
3 Thing3 I hope this aligns   
4 Thing4 not much             
5 Thing5 help me

How can I get the column names to align left with the rest of the dataframe?

Thanks in advance.

Why do you want to do this? If it's for reporting purposes, you might want to look at something like the "pander" package. — A5C1D2H2I1M1N2O1R2T1, Mar 08 '15 at 07:46
It was just annoying me really. I'll check out pander, thanks. — neuropsych, Mar 08 '15 at 12:00

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '15 at 11:52

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# print object explicitly
print(x,right=F)

answered Mar 08 '15 at 11:52

Petr Matousu

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This works on an ordinary data.frame, but not on `dplyr:::print.tbl_df()` – smci May 18 '15 at 06:30
What's `F` doing? – not2qubit Nov 20 '20 at 09:04
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@not2qubit it is shortcut for FALSE. The right way should be right=FALSE. – Petr Matousu Nov 20 '20 at 20:23

Does format(..., justify = "left") on a dataframe also left-justify the column names?

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