On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> wrote: > Michael, > > that is a challenge. > > I accept it and suggest that it be a contest on the R-help list. > > Please post a pdf file showing some (more than one) tables that you think > look better in Excel than in LaTeX. > I,and probably some others, will send our versions of the tables. > > I think a new email thread with an appropriate catchy title would be the > way to do it.
The problem is that its drop dead easy in Excel but its not readily accessible in R and latex (as opposed to the problem being raw capability). Simply exhibiting how to do it is not enough. What is needed is a function, accessible from CRAN, with a bunch of built in themes that are easy to apply: latex(DF, theme = "cherry orchard") -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.