On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Donald Paul Winston wrote:
Good grief. Adding a report function is not going to make R less flexible. Don't
you want to use a tool that's relevant to the rest of the world? That world is
much bigger then your world. This is ridiculous.
Looks like some people are complaining about me criticizing R and the people who
defend it. Good grief again.
I think your philosophy is now more clear Donald. People who don't like
learning new things place themselves at a competitive disadvantage.
The R community, where learning is highly valued, may be fundamentally
incompatible with your philosophy. You may do well to stay with SAS.
Frank
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From: David Hajage-2 [via R] <ml-node+2333348-1227050197-138...@n4.nabble.com>
Sent: Sat, August 21, 2010 4:54:12 AM
Subject: Re: R reports
Just show us what is the kind of report you want to do, and you will perhaps
get a solution to reproduce it. Then, if you don't like the way to do that,
write your own code or don't use R, noone force you. The majority of R users
are satisfied with the way to generate reports, because it is flexible.
There is ABSOLUTELY *NO WARRANTY with R, this means also you have no
warranty to find exactly what you want, and what you can find in SAS. Just
deal with it.*
2010/8/21 Donald Paul Winston <[hidden email]>
Sweave and LaTex is way to much overhead to deal with. There should be a
built in standard report() function analogous to plot().
Something like the following is necessary if you want real people to take R
seriously:
report(data=<aDataFrame>, vars=<vectorOfColumnNames>,
label=<vectorOfColumnNames>, by=<vectorOfColumnNames>,
sum=vectorOfColumnNames>, title=<vectorOfStrings>,
footer=<vectorOfStrings>,
pageBy=<vectorOfColumnNames>, sumBy=<vectorOfColumnNames>,
filename=<string>, fileType=<text|csv|pdf..>...etc)
Did I say "real" people? I've been Palinized.
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