Frank E Harrell Jr <fharrell at virginia.edu> wrote:
> > Sorry to bother you again, I use the latex command with
> > Sweave, and I would like to see the reports come out well
> > without manual interventions on some tex files.
>
> latex(object, file='') works with Sweave's <<results=tex>>= construct.
>
> >
> As in my previous note I could not duplicate that on Linux
> using the standard tetex distribution of latex etc.
> Please send output from the version command (I need to at
> least see the OS you are using) and your complete script
> (which you did not send before) so that I can run it exactly
> as you do, if you still cannot get it to work.
Thanks a lot for your help. I use the standard tetex
distribution that comes with linux debian (sarge). I could
also duplicate the problem on a another machine running
debian woody.
cunegonde:~> latex --version
TeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159
kpathsea version 3.3.7
Copyright (C) 1999 D.E. Knuth.
[... snip copyright info]
Here is the transcript of a very short R session
showing the latex problem with summary:
##########################################################
R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.7.0 (2003-04-16)
[snip the R intro text]
> options(STERM='iESS', editor='emacsclient')
> library(Hmisc)
Hmisc library by Frank E Harrell Jr
Type library(help='Hmisc'), ?Overview, or ?Hmisc.Overview')
to see overall documentation.
Hmisc redefines [.factor to drop unused levels of factor variables
when subscripting. To prevent this behaviour, issue the command
options(drop.unused.levels=F).
Attaching package 'Hmisc':
The following object(s) are masked from package:methods :
show
The following object(s) are masked from package:base :
[.factor %in% interaction [.terms
> set.seed(1)
> y<-factor(sample(c('a','b','c'),100,T))
> x<-runif(100)
> a<-summary(y~x,method='reverse')
> options(digits=3)
> a
Descriptive Statistics by y
+-+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| |a |b |c |
| |(N=27) |(N=38) |(N=35) |
+-+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
|x|0.474/0.548/0.724|0.261/0.446/0.626|0.284/0.591/0.853|
+-+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
> latex(a)->la
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(/tmp/Rtmp973/file66334873.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/geometry.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/geometry.cfg))
No file file66334873.aux.
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 20--21
[1] (./file66334873.aux)
LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references right.
)
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on file66334873.dvi (1 page, 820 bytes).
Transcript written on file66334873.log.
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And now, the faulty latex file (a.tex):
% latex.default(cstats, title = title, caption = caption, rowlabel = rowlabel, col.just = col.just, numeric.dollar = FALSE, insert.bottom = legend, rowname = lab, dcolumn = dcolumn, extracolheads = extracolheads, extracolsize = Nsize, ...)
%
\begin{table}[!tbp]
\begin{center}
\caption{Descriptive Statistics by y\label{a}}
\begin{tabular}{lccc}\hline\hline
\multicolumn{1}{l}{}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{a}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{b}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{c}
\\ \multicolumn{1}{l}{{\scriptsize $N=27$}}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{{\scriptsize $N=38$}}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{{\scriptsize $N=35$}}\\ \hline
x&{\scriptsize 0.474~}{0.548 }{\scriptsize 0.724} &{\scriptsize 0.261~}{0.446 }{\scriptsize 0.626} &{\scriptsize 0.284~}{0.591 }{\scriptsize 0.853} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\noindent {\scriptsize $a$\ }{$b$\ }{\scriptsize $c$\ } represent the lower quartile $a$, the median $b$, and the upper quartile $c$\ for continuous variables.\\
\end{table}
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The line which starts with:
\\ \multicolumn{l}{1}{{\scriptsize$N=27$}}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{[...]
should read:
\\ \multicolumn{l}{1}{}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{\scriptsize$N=27$}{[...]
I use your libraries and also Sweave a lot (Sweave is
actually the major reason why I decided recently to use R
rather than Stata: documenting the analysis is fun when you
can produce nice tables and graphs automatically in a LaTeX
document). Also, I find your libraries and documentation
truly amazing.
Thanks again,
--
Philippe Glaziou
Epidemiologist
Pasteur Institute of Cambodia