[R] report generator a la epiinfo

[Christophe Declercq]

Hi, Lucas

You should try Sweave in the 'tools' package (see
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/).

You will have to get a TeX/LaTeX distribution and learn a little of LaTeX
but it is worth the effort.

I frequently use R with Sweave on EpiData files (http://www.epidata.dk/)
with great success.

Hope it helps.

Christophe
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Lucas Gonzalez
> Santa Cruz
> Envoyé : mardi 21 octobre 2003 11:55
> À : r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Objet : [R] report generator a la epiinfo
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'd like to use R in epidemiology and disease surveillance.
>
> In EpiInfo you can have a script (.pgm) which calls a predefined report
> (.rpt), where a table is calculated and values picked from that table
> and placed where the author of the report wants them, with text around
> those values. (Please see example below.)
>
> I've looked at manuals, faq, mail-search and google. The closest is an
> "R Report Generator" email that looked as if it wasn't followed after a
> couple of years.
>
> ##The script might have something like this:
> read.epiinfo("oswego.rec")
> report("oswego.rpt", output="oswego.txt")
>
> ##The predefined report might have this:
> #{ill}
> Exactly {"YES"} people fell ill, and {"NO"} people didn't.
> We don't know about the remaining [({}-{"YES"}-{"NO"})*100/{}] percent.
> #{icecream ill}
> We are specifically interested in the number of people who chose vanilla
> and didn't fall ill (all {"VANILLA", "YES"} of them).
>
> Is there anyway to do this with R? Any direction I should look into?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Lucas
>
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