[R] R table as integrable object for large Latex Documents - avoiding SWeave

[Duncan Mackay]

Hi Christian

I also think that latex is the way to go having to regularly produce 
pdfs that are around  50-100+ pages.

Why use powerpoint when you have Beamer or other latex packages to 
create a presentation.
You would have done most of the work in the thesis so use what you 
have already done.

Presentations can take time in powerpoint and there is 
forward/backward compatibility issues  with Microsoft.
Everybody has Adobe/Acrobat not all have MS

The key to productivity is to have templates for graphs figures and 
tables in your text editor and amend to suit.
For many column tables I use R to produce the column headings as the 
centred column headings are a different format to the body
Just a matter of clicking on the template and supplying the column headings.

HTH

Duncan

Duncan Mackay
Department of Agronomy and Soil Science
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
Email: home: mackay at northnet.com.au


At 04:44 14/08/2012, you wrote:
>There is grid.table in the gridExtra package
>(http://code.google.com/p/gridextra/wiki/tableGrob), but for thesis
>tables I think you're better off trying to solve the difficulties
>you've been having with xtable. I can also recommend the latex
>function in the Hmisc package, which makes it easier to do things like
>specify row and column groups.
>
>Best,
>Ista
>
>On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, clangkamp
><christian.langkamp at gmxpro.de> wrote:
> > Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative.
> > I am currently writing my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown
> > over time, I am sure many of you are familiar with the situation. 
> Likewise I
> > am doing the quantitative analysis with R, and again a lot of lines of more
> > or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs (which one can wonderfully
> > integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not sure. With
> > Word / Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV 
> integration with the
> > Latex Packages is really cumbersome.
> >
> > My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...)
> > which sort of do integration, but they require a lot of command 
> definitions,
> > requiring a lot of time to get right and ultimately also 
> providing much of a
> > source for errors. Thus my question is whether you know of any alternative
> > how to create pictures or CSV style objects that *easily* integrate into
> > LaTeX, keep their format etc.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Christian
> >
> >
> >
> > -----
> > Christian Langkamp
> > christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de
> >
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