[R] Latex no where to be seen

[Joshua Wiley]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Philippe Grosjean
<phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> On 20/08/10 09:11, Joshua Wiley wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Donald Paul Winston
>> <satchwinston at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm experimenting using R as a report writer. I'm told LaTex is the
>>> destination for my quest. But ?latex() gives me an error. The package
>>
>> Just as a side note, using ?foo() will always return an error.  If
>> there were a latex() function, you would drop the parentheses (i.e.,
>> ?latex   ) to bring up the documentation.
>
> No, it does not. ? is the operator that has the top priority. So, something
> like:
>
> ?ls()
>
> brings you the help page for function 'ls'. That said, you are right that

My sincerest apologies Donald and Philippe----I have spent too much
time running R through Emacs, where at least on my system I would get
"No documentation for 'ls(' in specified packages and libraries: you
could try '??ls(' "

> the correct syntax is:
>
> ?ls
>
> PhG
>
>>> manager does not have it. The package installer can't find it. Where is
>>> it?
>>>
>>> It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can
>>> produce
>>> the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis
>>> software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS,
>>> Oracle
>>> Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc)
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