Another option is to use ascii package <http://eusebe.github.com/ascii/>.
Just choose your favorite markup language
(asciidoc<http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/>,
txt2tags <http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/>,
restructuredtext<http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html>,
org-mode <http://orgmode.org/> or textile<http://textism.com/tools/textile/>).
They all have several output options (html, latex, xml...). ascii package
provides a new generic function to format R output to all these markup
languages, and corresponding Sweave drivers.

For example:
- http://www.ncfaculty.net/dogle/fishR/bookex/AIFFD/AIFFD.html (using
asciidoc)
- http://learnr.wordpress.com/ (using asciidoc)
-
http://mpastell.com/2010/03/25/create-odf-pdf-and-html-report-from-a-single-sweave-document/
(using
restructuredtext)

I am using ascii package with asciidoc, html output can be converted to .doc
or .odf with microsoft word or openoffice, but you can also obtain xml
output.

Best,

david
2010/5/1 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com>

> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Chris Evans <chrishold@psyctc.org> wrote:
> > It's interesting to see this coming up quite soon after my posting
> > asking for light formatting (tabs, simple tables, one day embedded
> > graphics) in a default output pane in R.
> >
> > Greg Snow kindly pointed me to sword and I've tried it and it seems to
> > work and is a bit friendlier than ODFweave or the xtable, hwriter and
> > R2HTML options that I also know.  Sweave and the whole transition to
> > TeX/LaTeX, though I'd love it, just isn't a realistic option for me as
> > my statistical/numerical work is done in a world in which pretty
> > literally no-one uses TeX and I and many others who are part time with R
> > will never have time to learn to go that way.  (I promise myself I'll
> > give it one determined try when I retire but even then all papers I
> > submit to journals will have to be in Word or RTF.)
> >
> > Greg also kindly pointed me to the R-Plus GUI by Xlsolutions corp
> > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsv1MdB4tk) (thanks Greg) and that
> > clearly has some of the formatted table output I'd like but it is also a
> > huge shift towards the whole SPSS style pull down menus for everything
> > and I really don't want that (and can't justify the price!)
> >
> > Come on R core team: I am sure there are a large number of users like
> > Max Gunther and myself who would find this a huge help and I'm equally
> > sure there are an even larger number of potential users who would change
> > to R if we had formatted tables in the output window and the option to
> > save that to HTML, TeX, ODF and ideally RTF.  I think three quarters of
> > the export/save primitives needed are there in these various add ons to
> > R that alread exist and all that's needed on top of them is a simple
> > screen rendering that would handle tables.  (Graphics later or even
> > never would be fine by me.)
> >
> > Yours in hope and huge appreciation for what we already have which I
> > have been using a bit this last week and, as ever, marvelling at its
> > power and simplicity ... and I didn't need tables from it for once!
> >
>
> Regarding RTF, note that the Microsoft document that defines RTF was
> actually the subject of a dispute with competitors of Microsoft who
> claimed that it is so vague that it effectively imposes too high a
> barrier for others to climb  to realistically interface to Word via
> RTF.  One can only do it by supplementing the spec with substantial
> trial and error so its not so straight forward to develop RTF
> software.
>
> Having written such software for my commercial R package, RTFgen,
> which generates RTF from R I am quite aware of the problems.
> Since other commercial packages are being mentioned here I will add
> some info on this one too.  The package is similar in concept to the
> hwriter and R2HTML packages on CRAN except that instead of generating
> HTML like those packages do it generates RTF that is directly readable
> by Word.  Its single pass, i.e. it generates RTF directly so there is
> no intermediate document that might otherwise need to debugged during
> the development of a report. It is written in 100% R and requires no
> non-R software, not even Word, to generate reports making it trivial
> to deploy.
>
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