[R] R reports

[schuster]

Hi, 

are you looking for something like SAS ODS?
 (The terms "4GL" and "declarative programming" are confusing)

With SAS ODS an output destination is opened at one place oft the program 
(e.g. HTML or PDF or both), subsequent procedures then write output to the 
destination(s). 
The procedures don't have to know about ODS-Output or say what and where to 
write to, the output is simply caught and written to the output (graphics, 
tables, results etc.) 

Finally the output destination is closed and all the collected output will be 
written to file(s). 

The principle is similar to the PDF ouptut with plot(). 

In my opinion the idea behind SAS ODS is quite nice. It is a fast way to get 
output into different file formats. You  can get quick (an dirty) results or 
apply different styles and formatting options (not always easy). 

I have not (yet) seen something exactly comparable to this in R (doesn't mean 
there is not a package for this). Other output options exist (as mentioned): 
Sweave etc. 


On Thursday 19 August 2010 01:43:07 pm Donald Paul Winston wrote:
> Oops, I meant 4GL. Part of SAS involves more or less "declarative" coding
> where SAS figures out how to process the information and you don't have to.
> Sweave and html generators in R are not what I'm looking for. I'm looking
> for a function whose arguments are data, column names, grouping variables,
> summary stats, titles, footnotes, etc. Sort of like what plot does except
> the function will generate a report. I suppose you could specify an output
> format or "printer device" as plain text, rich text, pdf, or html.
> 

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