Vertical names of headers

[pevnak]

Hi,

Thanks for wonderful package. I would like to ask, if you have considered to add an option with header printed out vertically. For example like this

                                                        N
                                                        o         S
                                                        n         c
                                                        p         i
                                                        r         e
                        A             F                 o         n
                        u             i              N  f         c     T
                        t             l              e  i   P  P  e     r
                        o          E  m      H       w  t   e  e        a
                        s          n         o       s  s   o  t  &     v
                                   t  &      w              p  s        e
                        &          e         t       &  &   l     T     l
                               E   r  A      o              e  &  e
                        V      d   t  n              P  A         c     &
                        e      u   a  i      &       o  c   &  A  h
                        h  C   c   i  m  G           l  t      n  n  S  E
                        i  o   a   n  a  a   S  M    i  i   B  i  o  p  v
                        c  m   t   m  t  m   t  u    t  v   l  m  l  o  e
                        l  e   i   e  i  i   y  s    i  i   o  a  o  r  n
                        e  d   o   n  o  n   l  i    c  s   g  l  g  t  t
                        s  y   n   t  n  g   e  c    s  m   s  s  y  s  s
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
      Autos & Vehicles  0  0   1   1  0  0   0  0    0  0   2  0  0  0  0
                Comedy  0  0  18  17  1  0   0  0    5  0  12  0  1  0  0
             Education  1  1  49  46  1  1   4  0   45  0  13  0  2  0  4
         Entertainment  0  7  23  40  0  0   4  0   45  0  44  0  6  0  3
      Film & Animation  0  0   1   3  0  0   1  0    0  0   2  0  0  0  0
                Gaming  0  0   3  14  0  1   1  0    2  0  10  0  0  0  0
         Howto & Style  0  1   5   6  0  1   4  0   15  0  22  0  2  0  3
                 Music  0  0   0   0  0  0   0  0    0  0   2  0  0  0  0
       News & Politics  0  0  18  23  0  1   2  0  309  0  14  0  2  0  0
 Nonprofits & Activism  0  0   1   0  0  0   0  0    2  0   0  0  0  0  0
        People & Blogs  0  5  18  35  0  0   6  0   33  0  49  0  7  0  5
        Pets & Animals  0  9   5  16  4  6   6  0    5  0  10  1  0  1  0
  Science & Technology  0  0  15   9  0  1   1  0   12  0   4  0  0  0  1
                Sports  0  0   0   0  0  0   0  0    2  0   2  0  0  0  0
       Travel & Events  0  1   3  13  0  0  12  0    3  0  15  0  0  0  1
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

I did this with a this code snippet

function caption2matrix(captions; bottom_space = 0)
	cm = fill("", maximum(length.(captions))+bottom_space, length(captions))
	b = size(cm, 1) - bottom_space 
	for (i, s) in enumerate(captions)
		for j in 1:length(s)
			cm[b - length(s) + j, i] = string(s[j])
		end 
	end
	cm
end
cm = caption2matrix([" ", captions...])
hlines = [size(cm,1), size(cm,1) + size(confusion,1)]
pretty_table(vcat(cm, hcat(captions, confusion)); noheader = true, vlines = [], hlines)

It is not visually stunning, but it is nice that the table is compactly printed.

Best wishes and thanks for a great work.
Tomas

[ronisbr]

Hi @pevnak !

Thanks for the proposal! It seems interesting! In fact, I am doing a HUGE rewrite in PrettyTables (check the branch ptable). In this new version, this feature will be very easy to implement.