On 1/13/21 12:19 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Tom, > > No preferred Linux distribution and indeed we have users on the dev list and > user list from several different ones. > > That said, I'm certain that such a command can be written for Windows, so > don't switch just for that :). I just do not know how to write it on Windows. > The main idea would be to use R to read the data.table and generate the LaTeX > (e.g., using the xtable package or one of the many other packages to export > LaTeX) and to then call the tex2lyx program that ships with LyX that imports > LaTeX into LyX.
Scott, I don't know if you know this, or if it's relevant, but Windows 10 can be downloaded for free and installed into a virtual machine. That would give you a simple environment to test this. Riki > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:15:21PM +0000, Thomas Philips wrote: >> Scott, >> Thanks for the gracious and generous offer, but unfortunately we are on >> Windows, not Linux. Out of curiosity, is there a preferred Linux >> distribution for Lyx? >> >> >> Tom >> >> Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 11:57 AM >> To: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes >> Cc: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org; Doug Martin; Thomas Philips >> Subject: Re: Feature Request from Doug Martin and Tom Philips >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:50:49AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> Le 13/01/2021 à 00:04, Doug Martin a écrit : >>>> Tom and I are using various R packages for the book Portfolio >>>> Construction and Risk Management that we are writing >>>> using LYX. A LYX feature that would help us in that effort a lot would >>>> be the ability to import R data framesm and data.table >>>> objects created using the excellent data.table package. Given the >>>> thousands of R packages, and the popularity of the >>>> data.table package, we guess that this import feature for LYX would >>>> benefit a lot of people who use both R and LYX. >>> Hi Doug, >>> >>> Did you consider using knitr or Sweave? They allow to insert raw R code in >>> your document. I use that a lot and it is great. >> I also find knitr to be very helpful with tables. >> >> By the way, if you happen to be on Linux, I can write a simple command for >> you that does the conversion from a data.table to a .lyx file that has a >> table. I know you're proposing a feature that will benefit all LyX users, >> but I offer this nonetheless. >> >> Scott >> >>
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