On 1/18/21 2:49 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > On 1/18/21 2:03 PM, Doug Martin wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 10:41 AM Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org >> <mailto:skost...@lyx.org>> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 07:25:42PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> > Le 14/01/2021 à 05:34, Doug Martin a écrit : >> > > JMarc and all, >> > > >> > > Tom and I use knitr extensively for R code chunks, and we >> mostly use >> > > kable with kableExtra to make tables. >> > > The input to kable are R data frames, or data.tables, which >> are the >> > > result of model fitting and related calculations. >> > > But we like to put mathematical expressions in selected cells >> of tables, >> > > which is so easy with LYX tables, and we currently >> > > have to make the data entry into LYX by hand from data tables and >> > > data.tables in order to make use of that feature. >> > > So it would be great if we could import R data tables and >> data.tables >> > > into LYX tables, rather than using the kable/kableExtra >> > > solution for our tables (maybe I didn't make that clear in >> my earlier >> > > email). Then we would probably would drop use of >> > > kable/kableExtra. >> > >> > So you want to import as .tex the result of R processing. This >> can be done >> > via "Paste from LaTeX". What would be missing for your intended >> usage? >> >> From what I understand, they would like to import a .Rds file without >> having to manually convert it to LaTeX. >> >> >> Scott, >> >> Definitely correct on the "without" part. But we want to directly >> import an R object >> of class data.frame or data.table into an LYX table. >> >> If we have to export such an object first, we would typically export >> it to an .Rda object. >> But it would be far more convenient to not have to do that. >> >> Doug >> >> >> Scott >> >> >> >> -- >> R. Douglas Martin >> Professor Emeritus in Applied Mathematics and Statistics >> Founder and Former Director of MS-CFRM Program >> depts.washington.edu/compfin/ <http://depts.washington.edu/compfin/> >> University of Washington >> > Doug, > > I'm not sure that what you want (direct import without first > exporting) is possible. Keep in mind that the source data frames / > tables live inside an R session, to which LyX probably does not have > access. So I'm pretty sure you will need to manually export the R > objects, either by saving to .Rda files (and then importing them into > a LyX document using a converter) or by running an R function/script > that converts them to LaTeX or LyX source (or something else LyX can > ingest).
Presumably one could script the R session itself so that the needed object was exported? I.e., can one do that from the command line? That's the kind of thing that an external template would do. Riki
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