Felipe Carrillo wrote:
Are you still can't get the data into R? I sent you this -mail last week, did you read it?
Yes I did read it, and I have installed the package and looked at the documentation. What I (after an admittently superficial inspection due to limited available time this weekend, the choir I am a member of had a concert yesterday on a monumental mass by Gounod) do not at the moment see is what the advantage of these functions are over standard read.table () and write.table (). I suppose I need to have another look.
Using write.table () or similar things has at least two disadvantages as far as I can see. One is that it only works on objects which can be coerced into a table or frame. With other types of objects like summary(lm(formula)) you get an error message. Secondly, you end up with one file (or worksheet) for each thing you want to transfer, which may easily be a mess or confusing (or both).
That is why I would prefer something along the lines of HTML, which means that several things may be pasted into the same worksheet, based on a "keep things together that belong together" kind of attitude. So, if you want one table combining means, standard deviations, and variable intercorrelations you do not want things in three different sheets or files, you want them in the same worksheet to begin with.
However, at the moment it seems that there are bugs in the R2HTML package, hopefully they will be eliminated in the near future. There are also some parts of the documentation that I do not understand. The list of functions includes things like HTML.lm, as far as I can see are invisible, both in respect to documentation and usage.
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