On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Donald Paul Winston <satchwins...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The ability to generate standard detail, summary, cross-tabs, and control > break reports is very important in government and corporate enterprises.
The great thing about standards, as a wise man once said, is that there are so many of them. I'll point out that he was speaking ironically. Your standard reports are not my standard reports. I want my heading typeset in Futura, and you want them in Comic Sans. I want my plots as barcharts, you want pies. The 'geeky' programmer mentality ingrained in R means that you can have that, but it won't be given to you. Here's the tools. Build it, build it *once*, build it good, and then use it as much as you like. The problem with standardized reports is that people's eyes glaze over. Ever seen a corporate report that was sixty almost identical report pages - graph here, table here, pie charts here? You stop looking after the third one. Of course government and corporations must be doing something right because they're just doing so well at the moment. Oh wait, maybe not. Meanwhile UK universities are currently trying to stuff more new students into oversubscribed courses than ever before. Who trusts government and corporates these days? Don't put them up as shining examples of the way to do things. It's revolution (with a small r) time, and I would hope that academia has a part to play. > The people who develop R and who use it live in a small ghetto and don't get > out much. Please please please come along to the useR meeting next year in the UK - its the one time of the year when the R developers are let out of their ivory towers for a week to mingle with the unwashed masses. Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
