[R] From R to LaTeX to pdf?

[Tom Backer Johnsen]

I am sure you are right.  I myself have not looked at the LaTeX function 
in Hmisc, that really sounds interesting, and thank you.  On the other 
hand I had the impression (which may be wrong) that the original 
question was posed by someone with not too much experience.  If that is 
the case the suggestion to combine custom functions in R with Sweave 
might be overwhelming at the very least.  My alternative was definitely 
much less elegant, but would work for someone with less experience.

I use R in my courses, but allow my students to use other packages.  I 
am nevertheless always surprised at how many prefer R.  In any case, I 
tell students how to transfer results from any statistical program into 
MS Word which most prefer.  Since my field is psychology, the important 
standard is APA, which is quite complicated. In that situation, you 
really have to transfer things via a spreadsheet.  You would be stupid 
not to, especially in respect to SPSS.

Tom

Erik Iverson wrote:
> While what you say is true for base R, someone already mentioned Hmisc's latex function, and I have written several custom functions to output tables in LaTeX, the benefit being the elimination of manual formatting and intervention when preparing tables.  Add this in with Sweave and make files, and you have a chain where you can drop in a new dataset, type make, and have a brand new report with no manual intervention. 
>
> Erik 
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> On Behalf Of Tom Backer Johnsen
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:06 AM
>> To: Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] From R to LaTeX to pdf?
>>
>> 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.  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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