There is also the problem that SWord's license does not allow for commercial 
use.  R2wd, write.table, and odfWeave don't have this restriction.

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From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:r...@temple.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:20 AM
To: Greg Snow
Cc: Duncan Murdoch; Tal Galili; r-help
Subject: Re: [R] nice report generator?

Greg,

Please look at the SWord package.  This package integrates MS Word with R
in a manner similar to the SWeave integration of LaTeX with R.
Download SWord from rcom.univie.ac.at<http://rcom.univie.ac.at>
If you have a recent download of RExcel from the RAndFriends installer, then
you will already have SWord on your machine.

Rich

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Greg Snow 
<greg.s...@imail.org<mailto:greg.s...@imail.org>> wrote:
Duncan,

If you are taking suggestions for expanding the tables package (looks great) 
then I would suggest some way to get the tables into MS products.  If I create 
a full output/report myself then I am happy to work in LaTeX, but much of what 
I do is to produce tables and graphs to clients that don't know LaTeX and just 
want something that they can copy and paste into powerpoint or word.  For this 
I have been using the R2wd package (and the wdTable function for the tables).  
I would love to have some toolset that I could use your tables package to 
create the main table, then transfer it fairly simply to word or excel.  I 
don't care much about the fluff of how the table looks (coloring rows or 
columns, line widths, etc.) just getting it into a table (not just the text 
version).

One possibility is just an as.matrix method that would produce something that I 
could feed to wdTable.  Or just a textual representation of the table with 
columns separated by tabs so that it could be copied to the clipboard then 
pasted into excel or word (I would then let the client deal with all the tweaks 
on the appearance).

Thanks,

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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:52 PM
To: Tal Galili
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Subject: Re: [R] nice report generator?

On 11-12-08 1:37 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
> Helloe dear Duncan, Gabor, Michael and others,
>
> Do you think it could be (reasonably) possible to create a bridge between a
> "cast_df" object from the {reshape} package into a table in Duncan's new
> {tables} package?

I'm not that familiar with the reshape package (and neither it nor
reshape2 appears to have a vignette to give me an overview), so I don't
have any idea if that makes sense.  The table package is made to work on
dataframes, and only dataframes.  It converts them into matrices with
lots of attributes, so that the print methods can put nice labels on.
But it's strictly rectangular to rectangular in the kinds of conversions
it does, and from the little I know about reshape, it works on more
general arrays, converting them to and from dataframes.


>
> That would allow one to do pivot-table like operations on an object using
> {reshape}, and then display it (as it would have been in excel - or better)
> using the {tables} package.

You'll have to give an example of what you want to do.

Duncan Murdoch


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>>> I think it would be *great *if an extension of Duncan's new "tables"
>>> package could include themes and switches as are seen in the video Gabor
>>> just linked to.
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>>> Tal
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>>>> Michael<comtech....@gmail.com<mailto:comtech....@gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>>>> Do you have an example...? Thanks a lot!
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>>>> See this video:
>>>> http://www.woopid.com/video/1388/Format-as-Table
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