Do you have an example...? Thanks a lot!

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Rainer Schuermann <Rainer.Schuermann@gmx.net
> wrote:

> > ... or perhaps some other CRAN package has already gone in
> > this direction.
>
> The tableGrob function in the gridExtra package probably is one of them.
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 19:29:54 -0500
> > Von: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com>
> > An: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>
> > CC: r-help <R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>, Janko Thyson <
> janko.thyson.rstuff@googlemail.com>
> > Betreff: Re: [R] nice report generator?
>
> > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On 11-12-07 5:43 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Richard M. Heiberger<rmh@temple.edu>
> > >>  wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Michael,
> > >>>
> > >>> that is a challenge.
> > >>>
> > >>> I accept it and suggest that it be a contest on the R-help list.
> > >>>
> > >>> Please post a pdf file showing some (more than one) tables that you
> > think
> > >>> look better in Excel than in LaTeX.
> > >>> I,and probably some others, will send our versions of the tables.
> > >>>
> > >>> I think a new email thread with an appropriate catchy title would be
> > the
> > >>> way to do it.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> The problem is that its drop dead easy in Excel but its not readily
> > >> accessible in R and latex (as opposed to the problem being raw
> > >> capability). Simply exhibiting how to do it is not enough.  What is
> > >> needed is a function, accessible from CRAN, with a bunch of built in
> > >> themes that are easy to apply:
> > >>
> > >> latex(DF, theme = "cherry orchard")
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > I don't believe you.  Show us some examples.
> > >
> >
> > As I mentioned, its not just a matter of replicating the output. Its a
> > matter of how easy it is to generate it.  With Excel 2007 enter a
> > table into the cells, select it and on the Home tab in the Styles
> > group of the ribbon click on Format a Table.  Select any of the
> > templates that are presented and that's it.
> >
> > I have produced quite fancy tables with R and latex beyond what the
> > above instructions could do in Excel but I did not regard that effort
> > as easy although it did produce very nice looking tables.
> >
> > There is a new tables package that just appeared on CRAN in the last
> > few days.  I haven't seriously used it yet but perhaps it has some of
> > these capabilities (or if not will evolve into providing not only the
> > tabular content but also the presentation aspects that are important
> > to some users) or perhaps some other CRAN package has already gone in
> > this direction.
> >
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