One minor warning regarding LaTeX: I have encountered journals in the psychological field (specifically, journals of the psychonomic society) that refuse to accept articles prepared in LaTeX, even if they are submitted as PDF. I'm a big LaTeX fan myself, so I really can't comprehend this.
On 30-May-07, at 6:07 PM, Greg Snow wrote: > Tim, > > First, I personnally am a big fan of LaTeX, Emacs, and ESS and I think > that in the long run you would benefit from learning all of them > (probably start with Emacs, then ESS, then LaTeX once you already > have a > knowledge of Emacs and how it can help). > > Since you asked about the simplest way to go, you may want to look at > the odfWeave package. This gives you the power of Sweave, but without > having to learn LaTeX. It works with documents in openoffice (a free > office suite similar to and mostly compatible with microsoft office > (word)). Using this you can create your template using openoffice > writer (or MS word, then convert using openoffice), run it through > R/odfWeave, and have the result as another openoffice document that > can > then be converted to MS word or pdf. > > Personally, if I am doing something for myself, or in which the output > format does not matter, then I use Sweave with LaTeX (using Emacs and > ESS). But, often my results need to be sent to a client that will cut > and past my results into an MS word document or power point > presentation. Then I find it easier to use openoffice and odfWeave > and > have the end result be an MS word document that can be e-mailed to the > client for them to mangle in ways they feel the need to. > > (there is also an HTML driver for Sweave I nthe the R2HTML package > where > you can have the template file resemble html and the final output > is in > html) > > Hope this helps, > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (801) 408-8111 > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Howard >> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:43 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [R] opinions please: text editors and reporting/Sweave? >> >> dear all - >> >> I currently use Tinn-R as my text editor to work with code >> that I submit to R, with some output dumped to text files, >> some images dumped to pdf. (system: Windows 2K and XP, R >> 2.4.1 and R 2.5). We are using R for overnight runs to create >> large output data files for GIS, but then I need simple >> output reports for analysis results for each separate data >> set. Thus, I create many reports of the same style, but just >> based on different input data. >> >> I am recognizing that I need a better reporting system, so >> that I can create clean reports for each separate R run. This >> obviously means using Sweave and some implementation of >> LaTex, both of which are new to me. I've installed MikTex and >> successfully completed a demo or two for creating pdfs from raw >> LaTeX. >> >> It appears that if I want to ease my entry into the world of >> LaTeX, I might need to switch editors to something like Emacs >> (I read somewhere that Emacs helps with the TeX markup?). >> After quite a while wallowing at the Emacs site, I am finding >> that ESS is well integrated with R and might be the way to >> go. Aaaagh... I'm in way over my head! >> >> My questions: >> >> What, in your opinion, is the simplest way to integrate text >> and graphics reports into a single report such as a pdf file. >> >> If the answer to this is LaTeX and Sweave, is it difficult to >> use a text editor such as Tinn-R or would you strongly >> recommend I leave behind Tinn and move over to an editor that >> has more LaTeX help? >> >> In reading over Friedrich Leisch's "Sweave User Manual" (v >> 1.6.0) I am beginning to think I can do everything I need >> with my simple editor. Before spending many hours going down >> that path, I thought it prudent to ask the R community. >> >> It is likely I am misunderstanding some of the process here >> and any clarifications are welcome. >> >> Thank you in advance for any thoughts. >> Tim Howard >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] 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. >> > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. -- Mike Lawrence Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University Website: http://myweb.dal.ca/mc973993 Public calendar: http://icalx.com/public/informavore/Public "The road to wisdom? 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