Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: > There has been an incredible number of responses in a short time, with a > number of different suggestions. With hindsight, I must admit I have not > been quite clear, so additional (somewhat lengthy) explanation is needed. > > I want to use R in an introductory course on multiple regression (among > other things) starting in two weeks time for students of psychology at my > University. These students are very much used to MS Word, it is in > principle possible to get them to adopt OpenOffice (which I would like to), > but I regard Latex to be out of the question. > > One of the things they are drilled on is that they have to produce term > papers etc. based on a template in APA (American Psychological Association)
There's nothing wrong with the APA template; it will work well with LaTeX. > format. Among other things, this means that the document must be all text > apart from the graphics. Therefore any kind of solution involving pictures > of tables rather than the tables / results as text is out. Same holds for > all kinds of "mixed" output, so combinations of text with PDF > elements. Besides, the tables in R are not that nice in respect to the > formatting. Since the content is the main thing anyhow, that does not You have not seen the various R/latex interfaces for tables then. > matter. In most cases, the tables have to be tweaked as least to some > extent. Given my inexperience, it seems that the R2HTML path is so far the > most promising (but for me untried so far) > > One of the nice things about SPSS and Statistica is that it is VERY easy to > copy and paste output from the program right into the paper / paper. A > commmon trick when using SPSS is to first paste the output into a > spreadsheet (e.g. Excel), and from there into the document. In any case, > the outcome is that the output is a table (not a table in the R sense) in > the document, which may be edited, tweaked, adding borders etc.. So, what > I am looking for is a process starting with output from R (like what is > obtained from the summary(lm (...)) command, the output of a correlation > matrix, or ...) that could end up as a table in MS Word (and probably in > OpenOffice as well) in the smallest number of steps. It sounds as if you are not interested in teaching students the principles of reproducible research, which is too bad. [See references towards the bottom of http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/StatReport]. > > For instance, if there was an option in R which had the effect that the > spaces separating things (e.g. the columns in the output of a correlation > matrix or the elements in an ANOVA table) were replaced by tabs, everything > would be very simple. Then, you could (a) paste the output into the > document, and (b) do a simple text-to-table conversion in Word after the > paste. A simple affair with a few simple steps. Ideally, what I want for > me and my students is this or a similar solution to this problem. That > might be a good selling argument for R as well. > > Tom -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html