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[schuster]

Hi, 

> 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)

I think R is a very good language for general programming and an even better 
domain specific language for statistical computing. 

It is not a BI or reporting software package. 

That does not mean you can't use R for BI and reporting.  Simply program your 
analysis and graphics part in R. Write the results into a database and the 
plots to files (for example). 

Then use one of the real good reporting tools available (e.g. eclipse BIRT), 
define your reports, connect to the database, fetch the analysis results and 
load the graphics. 

A really powerful reporting tool within R would be nice too, I agree. Would 
you like to write a package for this (assuming there is none at the moment).

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Friedrich Schuster
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