[R] translating output ( latex()....)

2005-08-22 Thread Anne
Dear R-helpers I need to produce statistical output where the annotations are in French (and from time to time in German). I produce plots/tables using extensively the latex() , summary.formula() ...functions of Hmisc which allows me for nice print-out. Up to now I "corrected" manually my latex co

Re: [R] translating output ( latex()....)

2005-08-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
R has since 2.1.0 had all the facilities one needs to mark up output for automated translation. However, we did _choose_ not to do it. One issue is layout: your French label is over twice as long as the English one. Another is that it is hard to translate single words like this out of context

Re: [R] translating output ( latex()....)

2005-08-22 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Anne wrote: > Dear R-helpers > > I need to produce statistical output where the annotations are in > French (and from time to time in German). I produce plots/tables using > extensively the latex() , summary.formula() ...functions of Hmisc > which allows me for nice print-out. Up to now I "correct

Re: [R] translating output ( latex()....)

2005-08-23 Thread Anne
Hi and thanks for the answers! Prof Ripley, I totally agree with you about the problem of the length of the labels in French and would be very happy to do all my work in English (however consider that probably Chinese/Japanese labels could be still more efficient with one character having all the