[R] R reports

[Paul]

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.
>   
I'm sorry if I don't understand what you want, but if you only want to 
create the text for this 'report' and be able to produce tables then for 
R I would suggest you look at plyr, which can do this quite easily, with 
minimal code (??plyr) (and can do many other, similar tasks as well).

If you want these tables in a pdf document, then you also need a little 
Sweave/xtable knowledge (??Sweave and ??xtable), a little LaTex 
knowledge and a working LaTex environment.

I don't think learning some basic R, plyr and a little Sweave/LaTex is 
particularly hard, maybe a few days work, and from what I understand 
from SAS colleagues, less than the equivalent tasks would take in that 
environment, but that's just my opinion.....

Regards,

Paul.