Re: [R] Any tools for working with US 2000 census data? (Zembower, Kevin)

Hi Kevin, Not an R-specific solution, but by far the easiest way to extract data from the 2000 census is to use American FactFinder. Go to the main page: http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en Hover over Data Sets, click Decennial Census. Select the file you want (SF-2 for yo

Re: [R] alternatives to latex() or xtable()

An alternative solution that allows you to break it down by categories is in the functions below. Comments/suggestions welcome and encouraged. Note that much thanks is due to those who responded to an earlier post of mine on a similar topic. To use (assuming you have a data.frame falled pathDist

Re: [R] xtable.by

A point of clarification: the measurements are continuous; the road surface is discrete with four levels, and the road capacity is discrete with five levels. Each measured point has both a surface and capacity associated with it. Thanks, Ari I have a series of measurements > [[alterna

[R] xtable.by

Hi all, I have a series of measurements made over different types of road surfaces and capacity that I want to summarize in tables via LaTeX. Ideally I'd like a table similar to this ( http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/tutorial4/multirow.png ) with mean/SD of the measurement broken down by