Do you have an example...? Thanks a lot! On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Rainer Schuermann <rainer.schuerm...@gmx.net > wrote:
> > ... or perhaps some other CRAN package has already gone in > > this direction. > > The tableGrob function in the gridExtra package probably is one of them. > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Datum: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 19:29:54 -0500 > > Von: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> > > An: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > > CC: r-help <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch>, Janko Thyson < > janko.thyson.rst...@googlemail.com> > > Betreff: Re: [R] nice report generator? > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > On 11-12-07 5:43 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > >> > > >> 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") > > >> > > >> > > > > > > I don't believe you. Show us some examples. > > > > > > > As I mentioned, its not just a matter of replicating the output. Its a > > matter of how easy it is to generate it. With Excel 2007 enter a > > table into the cells, select it and on the Home tab in the Styles > > group of the ribbon click on Format a Table. Select any of the > > templates that are presented and that's it. > > > > I have produced quite fancy tables with R and latex beyond what the > > above instructions could do in Excel but I did not regard that effort > > as easy although it did produce very nice looking tables. > > > > There is a new tables package that just appeared on CRAN in the last > > few days. I haven't seriously used it yet but perhaps it has some of > > these capabilities (or if not will evolve into providing not only the > > tabular content but also the presentation aspects that are important > > to some users) or perhaps some other CRAN package has already gone in > > this direction. > > > > -- > > 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. > > -- > ------- > > Gentoo Linux with KDE > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.
