Re: [R] From R to LaTeX to pdf?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:32:30 -0800

I am sure you are right. I myself have not looked at the LaTeX function in Hmisc, that really sounds interesting, and thank you. On the other hand I had the impression (which may be wrong) that the original question was posed by someone with not too much experience. If that is the case the suggestion to combine custom functions in R with Sweave might be overwhelming at the very least. My alternative was definitely much less elegant, but would work for someone with less experience.
I use R in my courses, but allow my students to use other packages. I am nevertheless always surprised at how many prefer R. In any case, I tell students how to transfer results from any statistical program into MS Word which most prefer. Since my field is psychology, the important standard is APA, which is quite complicated. In that situation, you really have to transfer things via a spreadsheet. You would be stupid not to, especially in respect to SPSS. 

Tom

Erik Iverson wrote:

While what you say is true for base R, someone already mentioned Hmisc's latex function, and I have written several custom functions to output tables in LaTeX, the benefit being the elimination of manual formatting and intervention when preparing tables.  Add this in with Sweave and make files, and you have a chain where you can drop in a new dataset, type make, and have a brand new report with no manual intervention. 

Erik 

  

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Subject: Re: [R] From R to LaTeX to pdf?

As a general observation, few, if any, statistical packages, generate
tables in the format what you might think you need or want.  R is not an
exception.  Then it is better to transfer the table to a spreadsheet,
shift things around, add headers, etc..  The R2HTML library is useful
for that operation.  When things are the way you want it, transfer it to
LaTex via a text file, e.g. .csv.

Tom

Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg wrote:

    

Hi all,



Anyone experienced in the LaTeX format?



I'm trying to use the xtable package to create nice anova tables, but

      

how do I do to produce a pdf from the resulting LaTeX table? I've tried
WinShell and MiKTeX, but I couldn't get any of them working...

    


Here's an example of the output in R:



% latex table generated in R 2.9.2 by xtable 1.5-6 package
% Tue Nov 24 14:17:32 2009
\begin{tabular}{lrrrrr}
  \hline
 & Df & Sum Sq & Mean Sq & F value & Pr($>$F) \\
  \hline
cat & 2 & 40.50 & 20.25 & 6.66 & 0.0019 \\
  Residuals & 107 & 325.13 & 3.04 &  &  \\
   \hline
\end{tabular}



Best regards,



Joel

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