[R] Sweave and executive summaries

[Dieter Menne]

 <Karen_Byron <at> bd.com> writes:

>    I'm learning to use R/Sweave/LaTeK to write my stat reports.  Is there a way
>    to  have  an executive summary in the beginning while still having the
>    analysis  code  embedded?  

Thanks to Ulrich Dietz from the German latex forum, I have an excellent
solution that can write summaries (for the top) and appendixes. It
is pure latex, but it main power comes when using it with rnw/Sweave.

<http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/8830a37d45dfca8e/5b3c72557b10e32b>

The idea is to have sections that are written out to a file similarly
to bibtex, and are collected later. You can download a minimal self-
running example from

http://www.menne-biomed.de/uni/appcol2.tex

(Make sure that you do not ask any more latex related questions here, 
you are running the risk of receiving a flame mail by higher authorities)


% -------- incomplete example -----
\begin{document}

\section{first section}
First paragraph.

\printsummary % Does what is says

<<results=tex>>.
cat("This is main text")
@

\begin{appendx} % appendix was taken
<<results=tex>>.
cat("This goes to appendix")
@
\end{appendx}

\begin{summary}
<<results=tex>>.
cat("This goes to summary")
@
\end{summary}

<<results=tex>>.
cat("Another  main text")
@

\printappendix
\end{document}