I should not have used the terms 4GL and 3GL. I'm just looking for a "simple" way to create a report in R. It appears the R way to generate a report is to "roll your own". There is no report() function analogous to plot() (which is very good) to generate a report from a table of data. I did not mean to say R is not powerful. But it is obvious that using R is much more geeky then using SAS. The ability to generate standard detail, summary, cross-tabs, and control break reports is very important in government and corporate enterprises. The people who develop R and who use it live in a small ghetto and don't get out much.
On Aug 20, 2010, at 5:33 PM, schuster [via R] wrote: > Hi, > > are you looking for something like SAS ODS? > (The terms "4GL" and "declarative programming" are confusing) > > With SAS ODS an output destination is opened at one place oft the program > (e.g. HTML or PDF or both), subsequent procedures then write output to the > destination(s). > The procedures don't have to know about ODS-Output or say what and where to > write to, the output is simply caught and written to the output (graphics, > tables, results etc.) > > Finally the output destination is closed and all the collected output will be > written to file(s). > > The principle is similar to the PDF ouptut with plot(). > > In my opinion the idea behind SAS ODS is quite nice. It is a fast way to get > output into different file formats. You can get quick (an dirty) results or > apply different styles and formatting options (not always easy). > > I have not (yet) seen something exactly comparable to this in R (doesn't mean > there is not a package for this). Other output options exist (as mentioned): > Sweave etc. > > > On Thursday 19 August 2010 01:43:07 pm Donald Paul Winston wrote: > > Oops, I meant 4GL. Part of SAS involves more or less "declarative" coding > > where SAS figures out how to process the information and you don't have to. > > Sweave and html generators in R are not what I'm looking for. I'm looking > > for a function whose arguments are data, column names, grouping variables, > > summary stats, titles, footnotes, etc. Sort of like what plot does except > > the function will generate a report. I suppose you could specify an output > > format or "printer device" as plain text, rich text, pdf, or html. > > > > -- > ---- > Friedrich Schuster > Dompfaffenweg 6 > 69123 Heidelberg > > ______________________________________________ > [hidden email] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > View message @ http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-reports-tp2330733p2333058.html > To unsubscribe from R, click here. > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-reports-tp2330733p2333220.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
