2010/8/21 Donald Winston <satchwinston@yahoo.com>

> I know how to program in a dozen languages. I have a B.A. in mathematics,
> and an M.S. in operations research and statistics.


I just don't care, I would try to answer you even if you had no formation.


> I can figure out how to write reports in R. The point is I don't want to.
> There should be a function that generates a report just like there is a
> function that generates a plot without using loops or if statements.


The question is: what do you want? What is the result of this fictive
function? I am sure you don't need loop to do that.


> I've read "R IN A NUTSHELL" from cover to cover. The word "report" does not
> even appear in the index.
>

Just ask Joseph Adler.


>
> On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:39 AM, David Hajage wrote:
>
> > 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@vanderbilt.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Donald Paul Winston wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Looks like some people are complaining about me criticizing R and the
> people who
> >> defend it. Good grief again.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Frank
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: David Hajage-2 [via R] <
> ml-node+2333348-1227050197-138200@n4.nabble.com<ml-node%2B2333348-1227050197-138200@n4.nabble.com>
> >
> >>
> >> Sent: Sat, August 21, 2010 4:54:12 AM
> >> Subject: Re: R reports
> >>
> >> 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.*
> >>
> >> 2010/8/21 Donald Paul Winston <[hidden email]>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> --
> >> View this message in context:
> >>
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-reports-tp2330733p2333264.html?by-user=t
> >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >>
> >>
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> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
>
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