Hi, are you looking for something like SAS ODS? (The terms "4GL" and "declarative programming" are confusing)
With SAS ODS an output destination is opened at one place oft the program (e.g. HTML or PDF or both), subsequent procedures then write output to the destination(s). The procedures don't have to know about ODS-Output or say what and where to write to, the output is simply caught and written to the output (graphics, tables, results etc.) Finally the output destination is closed and all the collected output will be written to file(s). The principle is similar to the PDF ouptut with plot(). In my opinion the idea behind SAS ODS is quite nice. It is a fast way to get output into different file formats. You can get quick (an dirty) results or apply different styles and formatting options (not always easy). I have not (yet) seen something exactly comparable to this in R (doesn't mean there is not a package for this). Other output options exist (as mentioned): Sweave etc. On Thursday 19 August 2010 01:43:07 pm Donald Paul Winston wrote: > Oops, I meant 4GL. Part of SAS involves more or less "declarative" coding > where SAS figures out how to process the information and you don't have to. > Sweave and html generators in R are not what I'm looking for. I'm looking > for a function whose arguments are data, column names, grouping variables, > summary stats, titles, footnotes, etc. Sort of like what plot does except > the function will generate a report. I suppose you could specify an output > format or "printer device" as plain text, rich text, pdf, or html. > -- ---- Friedrich Schuster Dompfaffenweg 6 69123 Heidelberg ______________________________________________ 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.
