Doesn't the APA package in LaTeX help in this situation? --Chris Ryan
---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:24:52 +0100 >From: Tom Backer Johnsen <bac...@psych.uib.no> >Subject: Re: [R] From R to LaTeX to pdf? >To: Erik Iverson <eiver...@nmdp.org> >Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>, Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg ><joel_furstenberg_h...@hotmail.com> > >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 >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >>> On Behalf Of Tom Backer Johnsen >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:06 AM >>> To: Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg >>> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >>> 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 >>>> >>>> _________________________________________________________________ >>>> Lagra alla dina foton på Skydrive. Det är enkelt och säkert! >>>> http://www.skydrive.live.com >>>> [[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. >>>> >>>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.
