It's interesting to see this coming up quite soon after my posting asking for light formatting (tabs, simple tables, one day embedded graphics) in a default output pane in R.
Greg Snow kindly pointed me to sword and I've tried it and it seems to work and is a bit friendlier than ODFweave or the xtable, hwriter and R2HTML options that I also know. Sweave and the whole transition to TeX/LaTeX, though I'd love it, just isn't a realistic option for me as my statistical/numerical work is done in a world in which pretty literally no-one uses TeX and I and many others who are part time with R will never have time to learn to go that way. (I promise myself I'll give it one determined try when I retire but even then all papers I submit to journals will have to be in Word or RTF.) Greg also kindly pointed me to the R-Plus GUI by Xlsolutions corp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsv1MdB4tk) (thanks Greg) and that clearly has some of the formatted table output I'd like but it is also a huge shift towards the whole SPSS style pull down menus for everything and I really don't want that (and can't justify the price!) Come on R core team: I am sure there are a large number of users like Max Gunther and myself who would find this a huge help and I'm equally sure there are an even larger number of potential users who would change to R if we had formatted tables in the output window and the option to save that to HTML, TeX, ODF and ideally RTF. I think three quarters of the export/save primitives needed are there in these various add ons to R that alread exist and all that's needed on top of them is a simple screen rendering that would handle tables. (Graphics later or even never would be fine by me.) Yours in hope and huge appreciation for what we already have which I have been using a bit this last week and, as ever, marvelling at its power and simplicity ... and I didn't need tables from it for once! Very best all, Chris Frank E Harrell Jr sent the following at 01/05/2010 04:35: > On 04/30/2010 05:45 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> On Apr 30, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Max Gunther wrote: >> >>> Dear "R" list, >>> >>> Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I >>> would like >>> to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly into a >>> Microsoft >>> Word table since this will save us tons of time, be more accurate to >>> minimize human copying errors and help us update data in our papers more >>> easily. >>> >>> Do people have suggestions for the best way to do this? >>> >>> I am a novice to "R" but I do work with a couple of >>> very knowledgeable statisticians who do most of the heavy statistical >>> lifting for our research group. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> Max >> >> Max, >> >> I would urge you to consider using Sweave. It enables the use of R and >> LaTeX to facilitate reproducible research, which seems to be your goal >> here. >> >> You might want to talk to your campus neighbor Frank Harrell, who has >> extensive information on the Vanderbilt Biostatistics department web >> site on this: >> > > And note Max that we have an R clinic every Thursday at 2pm. LaTeX and > Sweave are frequently discussed during the clinic. > > Frank > >> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/StatReport >> >> Frank also has some pointers for converting between various formats: >> >> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/SweaveConvert >> >> HTH, >> >> Marc Schwartz >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > -- Chris Evans <ch...@psyctc.org> Skype: chris-psyctc Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts. PDD network; Trust Research Governance Lead and Clinical Director, Psychological Therapies Directorate in Local Services, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust; Professor, Psychotherapy, Nottingham University *If I am writing from one of those roles, it will be clear. Otherwise* *my views are my own and not representative of those institutions * If you have difficulty Emailing me on this address or getting a reply, send again but cc to: chris dot evans at nottshc dot nhs dot uk and to: c dot evans at nottingham dot ac dot uk ______________________________________________ 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.