[R] nice report generator?

[Sarah Goslee]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Michael <comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Typically the console output will be something like this:
>
> Analysis of Variance Table
>
> Response: as.double(my.delta)
>             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
> my.factor    1      0   0.005   2e-04  0.988
> Residuals  1484  32630  21.988
>
> I am looking for a report-generator to make this look nicer and tabularize it...
>
> It doesn't matter if the outputs are in HTML, PDF, etc.
>
> As long as it looks fantastic, that's what we are looking for ... and
> also the convenience is important... we dont' want to create Latex
> document with manual insertaion of tables and plots... These need
> automation... thx a lot!

That's what sweave is *for* - automation and reproducible research. It
takes care of the heavy lifting of generating and inserting tables and
figures.

You will almost certainly need some tweaking to match your own
definition of "looks fantastic" though.

Sarah

>> On 07.12.2011 19:19, Sarah Goslee wrote:
>>> Sweave.
>>>
>>> Or ODFWeave, if Sweave/LaTeX are too much overhead.
>>>
>>> But really, it depends on what kind of report output you need to
>>> deliver. Printed? HTML? PDF?
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Michael<comtech.usa at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am looking for recommendations/pointers about best report generator you
>>>> think that are currently available?
>>>>
>>>> i.e. the package that can help turn console output into nice-looking neat
>>>> report to send to bosses?
>>>>
>>>> thanks a lot!
>>>> .
>>>



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Sarah Goslee
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