On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosj...@sciviews.org> wrote: > On 20/08/10 09:11, Joshua Wiley wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Donald Paul Winston >> <satchwins...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm experimenting using R as a report writer. I'm told LaTex is the >>> destination for my quest. But ?latex() gives me an error. The package >> >> Just as a side note, using ?foo() will always return an error. If >> there were a latex() function, you would drop the parentheses (i.e., >> ?latex ) to bring up the documentation. > > No, it does not. ? is the operator that has the top priority. So, something > like: > > ?ls() > > brings you the help page for function 'ls'. That said, you are right that
My sincerest apologies Donald and Philippe----I have spent too much time running R through Emacs, where at least on my system I would get "No documentation for 'ls(' in specified packages and libraries: you could try '??ls(' " > the correct syntax is: > > ?ls > > PhG > >>> manager does not have it. The package installer can't find it. Where is >>> it? >>> >>> It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can >>> produce >>> the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis >>> software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, >>> Oracle >>> Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc) >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Latex-no-where-to-be-seen-tp2332139p2332139.html >>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. ______________________________________________ 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.