[R] Latex no where to be seen

Philippe Grosjean phgrosjean at sciviews.org
Fri Aug 20 09:25:29 CEST 2010


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 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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