On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:50:24 -0600 Michael <comtech....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Happy New Year all! > > I am looking for a good solution for keeping record of my experiments > - could you please help me? > If you are working from scripts, which is a very good way to standardize procedures as a work flow and analysis develop, I would suggest checking sink() and cat(). Used properly these commands can be used to capture screen output to text files. These can then be opened and formatted in Word or Office or Emacs or ... I use this method to capture results of analyses of archaeological data. Use the device() command to capture graphics to jpeg files, pdfs or other graphic formats. If you develop a script of your analysis, you will have a file that will load data, carry out sequenced procedures, shoot the results to a text file designated in sink() or cat(), and the results can then be integrated into a word document. Curiously, there are not many books about R that explicitly address questions like capturing intermediate or final output from an analysis to usable text. The volumes I've found most useful are Modern Applied Statistics with S, R Cookbook, and R in Action (these are not ordered in order of usefulness). None go into anything like detail about the process of actually producing report-quality output (except figures), perhaps because the assumption is that the commands above will be used to capture the statistical output for a report, which will then dealt with externally to R. JWD ______________________________________________ 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.