Paul Miller wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I have just started learning R and am in the process of figuring out
what it can and can't do. I must say I am very impressed with R so
far and am amazed that something this good can actually be free.
Recently, I finished reading R for SAS and SPSS Users and have begun
reading SAS and R and Data Manipulation with R. Based on what I've
read in these books and elsewhere, I get the impression that R is
very good at drawing high quality graphs but maybe not so good at
creating nice looking tables of the sort I'm used to getting through
SAS ODS.
You're really only limited by your imagination here. I have written
several custom table functions to output LaTeX, but you can output
whatever you like (HTML, plain-text, org-mode files...), you're in
complete control with R.
I can second the Hmisc package though. I often use a combination of
summary.formula and the latex function to output really nice looking
tables that get put into a long PDF report for a study.
I can say that both of these functions, summary.formula and latex, in
Hmisc have a LOT of arguments, and almost every time I said "I wish it
looked a little different", there was an option to control it.
Specifically, I found the options:
exclude1, long, longtable, combine, test,
do be very useful. I often make tables by some treatment group, so all
these are using method = "reverse" to accomplish that.
And if you don't like the output, latex.summary.formula.reverse is a
good function to make your own version of, to output exactly what you
want. I have a local copy that augments the tables that contain
unadjusted p-values with adjusted p-values from a model.
But apart from Hmisc, just realize that with R you have a nice
programming language to produce any type of output you want, you're not
limited to what someone else gave you.
--Erik
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