Hi Paul, Sorry I didn't get to that subject in the first edition of R for SAS and SPSS Users. Several of the options people have mentioned will be in the second edition, although that's about a year off. I did get them added to R for Stata Users, due out in early April.
Cheers, Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >On Behalf Of Paul Miller >Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 10:51 AM >To: r-help@r-project.org >Subject: [R] How good is R at making publication quality tables? > >Hello Everyone, > >I have just started learning R and am in the process of figuring out >what it can and can't do. I must say I am very impressed with R so far >and am amazed that something this good can actually be free. > >Recently, I finished reading R for SAS and SPSS Users and have begun >reading SAS and R and Data Manipulation with R. Based on what I've read >in these books and elsewhere, I get the impression that R is very good >at drawing high quality graphs but maybe not so good at creating nice >looking tables of the sort I'm used to getting through SAS ODS. > >Am I right or wrong about this? If I am wrong, can anyone show me some >examples of how R can be used to create really nice looking tables? I >often make tables of adverse events in clinical trials that have n(%) >values in the cells. I'd love to see an example that does a nice job of >making that sort of table but would be happy to see any examples that >someone might be willing to send to me. > >Thanks, > >Paul > > > > __________________________________________________________________ >Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
