I must repeat: "just show us what is the kind of report you want to do, and you will perhaps get a solution to reproduce it" We still don't know what is the output of your report() function. This, is ridiculous.
On Saturday, August 21, 2010, Frank Harrell <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > ________________________________ > 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. > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-reports-tp2330733p2333264.html?by-user=t > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@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.
