[R] From R to LaTeX to pdf?

[Ista Zahn]

2009/11/24 Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no>:
> As a general observation, few, if any, statistical packages, generate tables
> in the format what you might think you need or want.  R is not an exception.

I actually find that Hmisc::latex generates tables pretty much exactly
as I want them. For me, this is one of the greatest strengths of R
(well, R + LaTeX = Sweave actually).

-Ista

>  Then it is better to transfer the table to a spreadsheet, shift things
> around, add headers, etc..  The R2HTML library is useful for that operation.
>  When things are the way you want it, transfer it to LaTex via a text file,
> e.g. .csv.
>
> Tom
>
> Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> Anyone experienced in the LaTeX format?
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to use the xtable package to create nice anova tables, but how
>> do I do to produce a pdf from the resulting LaTeX table? I've tried WinShell
>> and MiKTeX, but I couldn't get any of them working...
>>
>>
>> Here's an example of the output in R:
>>
>>
>> % latex table generated in R 2.9.2 by xtable 1.5-6 package
>> % Tue Nov 24 14:17:32 2009
>> \begin{tabular}{lrrrrr}
>>  \hline
>>  & Df & Sum Sq & Mean Sq & F value & Pr($>$F) \\  \hline
>> cat & 2 & 40.50 & 20.25 & 6.66 & 0.0019 \\  Residuals & 107 & 325.13 &
>> 3.04 &  &  \\   \hline
>> \end{tabular}
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> Joel
>>
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Ista Zahn
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University of Rochester
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