[R] Latex no where to be seen

[Duncan Murdoch]

Philippe Grosjean 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 the correct syntax is:
>   

It's actually slightly more complicated:  ?ls() really is parsed as ? of 
ls(), not (?ls)().  The help system needs to know the arguments to 
functions to know which help page to show you in the case of S4 methods. 
One simple example is the following:

library(stats4)
example(mle)

Now ?summary will give you the base page, but ?summary(fit2) will give 
you the stats4 page.

Duncan Murdoch

> ?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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