> 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.
How big a world do you want , Google use R successfully , and it is being used by NIST to analyse what is happening with the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. As an environmental consultant I use R in preference to other programs I have available (Stata, Statistica and Genstat), partly because of its flexibility, but a lot because , in conjunction with SWeave, (which I normally use via Lyx or Orgmode in Emacs) it allows me to produce clent ready reports. Something I couldn't do with the reporting facilities with the other programs. Although, it has and is, taking a lot of learning I am producing client ready reports faster and of a higher quality than I was before. Working to tight budgets and tight deadlines this is important. It has certainly been a lot of hard work to learn, and I am still far from being where I would like to be. And like you, I moaned about how easy things were in the other programs, but until you have experienced the full power of R,and yes, the flexibility it gives, you really are commenting from a platform of ignorance. I would listen carefully to people like Frank Harrell, who has a lot of experience of SAS and R, as well as a lot of experience of working in the very real world of medical research. I would also strongly encourage you to take R for what it is, and learn the many different ways of producing reports. It is a lot to learn, but in my mind well worth it. Graham ______________________________________________ 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.
