On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Erik Iverson <er...@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote: > > > 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.
Another option to consider is the xtable package. ______________________________________________ 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.