[R] R reports

[David Hajage]

I must repeat: "just show us what is the kind of report you want to
do, and you will perhaps
get a solution to reproduce it"
We still don't know what is the output of your report() function.
This, is ridiculous.

On Saturday, August 21, 2010, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
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> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Donald Paul Winston wrote:
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> Good grief. Adding a report function is not going to make R less flexible. Don't
> you want to use a tool that's relevant to the rest of the world? That world is
> much bigger then your world. This is ridiculous.
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> Looks like some people are complaining about me criticizing R and the people who
> defend it. Good grief again.
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> I think your philosophy is now more clear Donald.  People who don't like learning new things place themselves at a competitive disadvantage. The R community, where learning is highly valued, may be fundamentally incompatible with your philosophy.  You may do well to stay with SAS.
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> Frank
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> From: David Hajage-2 [via R] <ml-node+2333348-1227050197-138200 at n4.nabble.com>
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> Sent: Sat, August 21, 2010 4:54:12 AM
> Subject: Re: R reports
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> Just show us what is the kind of report you want to do, and you will perhaps
> get a solution to reproduce it. Then, if you don't like the way to do that,
> write your own code or don't use R, noone force you. The majority of R users
> are satisfied with the way to generate reports, because it is flexible.
> There is ABSOLUTELY *NO WARRANTY with R, this means also you have no
> warranty to find exactly what you want, and what you can find in SAS. Just
> deal with it.*
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> 2010/8/21 Donald Paul Winston <[hidden email]>
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> Sweave and LaTex is way to much overhead to deal with. There should be a
> built in standard report() function analogous to plot().
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> Something like the following is necessary if you want real people to take R
> seriously:
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> 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)
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> Did I say "real" people?  I've been Palinized.
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