Another option is to use ascii package <http://eusebe.github.com/ascii/>. Just choose your favorite markup language (asciidoc<http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/>, txt2tags <http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/>, restructuredtext<http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html>, org-mode <http://orgmode.org/> or textile<http://textism.com/tools/textile/>). They all have several output options (html, latex, xml...). ascii package provides a new generic function to format R output to all these markup languages, and corresponding Sweave drivers.
For example: - http://www.ncfaculty.net/dogle/fishR/bookex/AIFFD/AIFFD.html (using asciidoc) - http://learnr.wordpress.com/ (using asciidoc) - http://mpastell.com/2010/03/25/create-odf-pdf-and-html-report-from-a-single-sweave-document/ (using restructuredtext) I am using ascii package with asciidoc, html output can be converted to .doc or .odf with microsoft word or openoffice, but you can also obtain xml output. Best, david 2010/5/1 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Chris Evans <chrish...@psyctc.org> wrote: > > It's interesting to see this coming up quite soon after my posting > > asking for light formatting (tabs, simple tables, one day embedded > > graphics) in a default output pane in R. > > > > Greg Snow kindly pointed me to sword and I've tried it and it seems to > > work and is a bit friendlier than ODFweave or the xtable, hwriter and > > R2HTML options that I also know. Sweave and the whole transition to > > TeX/LaTeX, though I'd love it, just isn't a realistic option for me as > > my statistical/numerical work is done in a world in which pretty > > literally no-one uses TeX and I and many others who are part time with R > > will never have time to learn to go that way. (I promise myself I'll > > give it one determined try when I retire but even then all papers I > > submit to journals will have to be in Word or RTF.) > > > > Greg also kindly pointed me to the R-Plus GUI by Xlsolutions corp > > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsv1MdB4tk) (thanks Greg) and that > > clearly has some of the formatted table output I'd like but it is also a > > huge shift towards the whole SPSS style pull down menus for everything > > and I really don't want that (and can't justify the price!) > > > > Come on R core team: I am sure there are a large number of users like > > Max Gunther and myself who would find this a huge help and I'm equally > > sure there are an even larger number of potential users who would change > > to R if we had formatted tables in the output window and the option to > > save that to HTML, TeX, ODF and ideally RTF. I think three quarters of > > the export/save primitives needed are there in these various add ons to > > R that alread exist and all that's needed on top of them is a simple > > screen rendering that would handle tables. (Graphics later or even > > never would be fine by me.) > > > > Yours in hope and huge appreciation for what we already have which I > > have been using a bit this last week and, as ever, marvelling at its > > power and simplicity ... and I didn't need tables from it for once! > > > > Regarding RTF, note that the Microsoft document that defines RTF was > actually the subject of a dispute with competitors of Microsoft who > claimed that it is so vague that it effectively imposes too high a > barrier for others to climb to realistically interface to Word via > RTF. One can only do it by supplementing the spec with substantial > trial and error so its not so straight forward to develop RTF > software. > > Having written such software for my commercial R package, RTFgen, > which generates RTF from R I am quite aware of the problems. > Since other commercial packages are being mentioned here I will add > some info on this one too. The package is similar in concept to the > hwriter and R2HTML packages on CRAN except that instead of generating > HTML like those packages do it generates RTF that is directly readable > by Word. Its single pass, i.e. it generates RTF directly so there is > no intermediate document that might otherwise need to debugged during > the development of a report. It is written in 100% R and requires no > non-R software, not even Word, to generate reports making it trivial > to deploy. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
