On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 10:41 AM Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 07:25:42PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Le 14/01/2021 à 05:34, Doug Martin a écrit : > > > JMarc and all, > > > > > > Tom and I use knitr extensively for R code chunks, and we mostly use > > > kable with kableExtra to make tables. > > > The input to kable are R data frames, or data.tables, which are the > > > result of model fitting and related calculations. > > > But we like to put mathematical expressions in selected cells of > tables, > > > which is so easy with LYX tables, and we currently > > > have to make the data entry into LYX by hand from data tables and > > > data.tables in order to make use of that feature. > > > So it would be great if we could import R data tables and data.tables > > > into LYX tables, rather than using the kable/kableExtra > > > solution for our tables (maybe I didn't make that clear in my earlier > > > email). Then we would probably would drop use of > > > kable/kableExtra. > > > > So you want to import as .tex the result of R processing. This can be > done > > via "Paste from LaTeX". What would be missing for your intended usage? > > From what I understand, they would like to import a .Rds file without > having to manually convert it to LaTeX. > Scott, Definitely correct on the "without" part. But we want to directly import an R object of class data.frame or data.table into an LYX table. If we have to export such an object first, we would typically export it to an .Rda object. But it would be far more convenient to not have to do that. Doug > Scott > -- R. Douglas Martin Professor Emeritus in Applied Mathematics and Statistics Founder and Former Director of MS-CFRM Program depts.washington.edu/compfin/ University of Washington
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