## I would suggest using Hmisc:latex
library(Hmisc)
HH::latexSetOptions()
x <- matrix(1:6, nrow=2, dimnames=list(c('a','b'),c('c','d','this that')))
x
w <- latex(x, file='~/tmp/my.tex')
w$file
print.default(w)
w ## constructs and displays a pdf file with a temporary name
HH::pdf.latex(w, file="~/tmp/my.pdf") ## constructs a pdf file with specified
name
system("open ~/tmp/my.pdf") ## display file
## construct .docx file
## assuming pandoc is installed at /usr/local/bin/pandoc
system("/usr/local/bin/pandoc -o ~/tmp/my.docx ~/tmp/my.tex")
## Now you can open ~/tmp/my.docx in MS Word, and you have a nice table in a
default font.
system("open ~/tmp/my.docx")
## Change the font from the MS Word default font to Times New Roman (or
anything else).
## latex() and related functions allow quite complex tables to be constructed
in latex.
## Some are more complex than pandoc is able to translate cleanly into MS Word.
?Hmisc::latex
> On Nov 22, 2025, at 10:11, tgs77m--- via R-help <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks all!
>
> This is an elegant solution!
>
>
>
> TS
>
>
>
> From: John Kane <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 7:58 AM
> To: Greg Snow <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [R] Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to
> Word using Times New Roman
>
>
>
> I second Greg's recommendation. Creating a Quarto or Rmarkdown document and
> doing all text production and analysis in it is much more productive. It
> definitely makes changes and editing much easier and much less error prone.
>
>
>
> My personal preference is Quarto but either is several orders of magnitude
> better than cut and paste.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 at 10:40, Greg Snow <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
>
> Here are a couple of things that I have found useful for when you need
> the final results in MS Word and you want nice formatting.
>
> Use a quarto or Rmarkdown document and have knitr/pandoc create the
> word document instead of copy/paste. The pander package does some
> nice formatting for many of the statistical routines that pandoc
> converts into tables.
>
> If you need to copy and paste, first copy and paste to MS Excel (and
> for tables, you can use write.table with file="clipboard" and
> sep="\t", then just paste in Excel). Then maybe make some adjustments
> in Excel, then copy from Excel to Word, this will keep things as a
> table in word, so changing the font will not mess with the alignment.
>
> The broom package takes output from lm models and puts them into data
> frames (tibbles) that can be exported to Excel>Word instead of relying
> on fixed width fonts and spaces for formatting.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM tgs77m--- via R-help
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
>>
>> The root cause is that RStudio’s output console is hardwired to use
>> monospaced fonts like Consolas, Courier, or Monaco, which preserve column
>> alignment. Times New Roman (TTR), being proportional, breaks that alignment
>> when pasted into Word unless you manually reformat.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: CALUM POLWART <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
>> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 5:02 AM
>> To: Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP)
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>> >
>> Cc: Thomas Subia <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >;
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [R] Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio
>> to Word using Times New Roman
>>
>>
>>
>> As Wolfgang says.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ctrl-Shift-V and plain text.
>>
>>
>>
>> That said... I bet some of it looks awful as it's probably spaced for a
>> fixed width font.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2025, 10:28 Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP) via R-help,
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > wrote:
>>
>> Dear Thomas,
>>
>> Just paste without formatting. Then the pasted text will be in the active
>> font of the Word document.
>>
>> Best,
>> Wolfgang
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: R-help <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> > > On Behalf Of tgs77m--- via R-help
>>> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 07:51
>>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
>>> Subject: [R] Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to
>>> Word
>>> using Times New Roman
>>>
>>> Colleagues
>>>
>>> I am writing an article using Microsoft Word for a journal that requires
>>> Times New Roman for all text (including tables and statistical outputs).
>>> However, copying console output from RStudio (e.g., summary(lm())) into Word
>>> retains the RStudio monospace font, and Word does not automatically convert
>>> it to Times New Roman. Manually restyling each pasted block is
>>> time-consuming and error-prone.
>>>
>>> s there a recommended workflow for preserving proper alignment while
>>> achieving Times New Roman text formatting when transferring statistical
>>> results from RStudio into Word?
>>>
>>> System:
>>> Windows 11
>>> R 4.5.1
>>> RStudio 2024.12.0+
>>>
>>> Thanks for any guidance or best practices.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Thomas Subia
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > mailing list --
>> To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>>
>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list -- To
>> UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>
>
> --
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>
> ______________________________________________
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list -- To
> UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
