[R] Latex no where to be seen

[Erik Iverson]

On 08/19/2010 11:18 PM, Donald Paul Winston 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
> 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)

As others have mentioned, LaTeX is a completely separate system
with its own book, community, etc. However, it is useful and open
source, so implementing yet another reporting system would not be
necessary.

There are several ways to generate LaTeX code from R objects.
See the xtable and Hmisc packages for instance.  There is also
the Sweave package, that lets you write your R code within a
LaTeX document, eliminating all copying and pasting steps, and
making the process of updating the same report with new data
easy.

See some examples at http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/Sweave/

There is also the rreport package from Frank Harrell's group:
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/StatReport