[R] R reports

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Tim Gruene <tg at shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:01:17PM -0700, Donald Paul Winston wrote:
>>
>> Sweave and LaTex is way to much overhead to deal with. There should be a
>> built in standard report() function analogous to plot().
>>
>> Something like the following is necessary if you want real people to take R
>> seriously:
>>
>> report(data=<aDataFrame>, vars=<vectorOfColumnNames>,
>> label=<vectorOfColumnNames>, by=<vectorOfColumnNames>,
>> sum=vectorOfColumnNames>, title=<vectorOfStrings>, footer=<vectorOfStrings>,
>> pageBy=<vectorOfColumnNames>, sumBy=<vectorOfColumnNames>,
>> filename=<string>, fileType=<text|csv|pdf..>...etc)
>>
>> Did I say "real" people?  I've been Palinized.
>
> In German I would call you a "Troll". Does this expression exist for boards in
> other languages, too?
>

Its the same word in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)