How to set both column width and text alignment in align argument of xtable?

Question

I would like to keep the width of columns I set using align argument of xtable and I would like to align all numeric columns to the right, others to th

Answer 1

I was having the same problem, and want to share this works in R console as

library(xtable)

irisShort <- head(iris)
print(xtable(irisShort,
             digits=rep(0,6),
             align=c(
               "p{1cm}|","p{3cm}|",
               "p{2cm}|","p{3cm}|",
               "p{3cm}|","p{3cm}|")))