Re: [R] R table as integrable object for large Latex Documents - avoiding SWeave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/08/12 18:46, clangkamp wrote: Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative. I am currently writing my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown over time, I am sure many of you are familiar with the situation. Likewise I am doing the quantitative analysis with R, and again a lot of lines of more or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs (which one can wonderfully integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not sure. With Word / Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV integration with the Latex Packages is really cumbersome. My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...) which sort of do integration, but they require a lot of command definitions, requiring a lot of time to get right and ultimately also providing much of a source for errors. Thus my question is whether you know of any alternative how to create pictures or CSV style objects that *easily* integrate into LaTeX, keep their format etc. You effectively have two options: 1) process the table in R to create a LaTeX file which you can insert into your LaTeX document (see response from Ista), or 2) you can export your data as a csv file, and then process it in LaTeX. There are several packages, which can read csv files and format it as a table (e.g. http://mancoosi.org/~abate/latex-tables-csv-files, or http://texblog.org/2012/05/30/generate-latex-tables-from-csv-files-excel/) . Depending on how complicated your table is, if it is a longtable, or landscape, the one option might work better then the other, and it depends on your preferences. Some editors actually offer the option to import a csv file and convert it to LaTeX, gnumeric (and possibly LibreOffice) can export to LaTeX, but I would possibly use option 2) or 1) Cheers, Rainer Thanks Christian - Christian Langkamp christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-table-as-integrable-object-for-large-Latex-Documents-avoiding-SWeave-tp4640183.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAqGv4ACgkQoYgNqgF2egpaEACfQtFoM+DWOtEuNv8pS8cE85iy 1pYAnix3ORL5dZBHVnnrR+3IbZOS5e1G =vuH6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ 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.
[R] R table as integrable object for large Latex Documents - avoiding SWeave
Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative. I am currently writing my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown over time, I am sure many of you are familiar with the situation. Likewise I am doing the quantitative analysis with R, and again a lot of lines of more or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs (which one can wonderfully integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not sure. With Word / Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV integration with the Latex Packages is really cumbersome. My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...) which sort of do integration, but they require a lot of command definitions, requiring a lot of time to get right and ultimately also providing much of a source for errors. Thus my question is whether you know of any alternative how to create pictures or CSV style objects that *easily* integrate into LaTeX, keep their format etc. Thanks Christian - Christian Langkamp christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-table-as-integrable-object-for-large-Latex-Documents-avoiding-SWeave-tp4640183.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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.
Re: [R] R table as integrable object for large Latex Documents - avoiding SWeave
There is grid.table in the gridExtra package (http://code.google.com/p/gridextra/wiki/tableGrob), but for thesis tables I think you're better off trying to solve the difficulties you've been having with xtable. I can also recommend the latex function in the Hmisc package, which makes it easier to do things like specify row and column groups. Best, Ista On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, clangkamp christian.langk...@gmxpro.de wrote: Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative. I am currently writing my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown over time, I am sure many of you are familiar with the situation. Likewise I am doing the quantitative analysis with R, and again a lot of lines of more or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs (which one can wonderfully integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not sure. With Word / Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV integration with the Latex Packages is really cumbersome. My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...) which sort of do integration, but they require a lot of command definitions, requiring a lot of time to get right and ultimately also providing much of a source for errors. Thus my question is whether you know of any alternative how to create pictures or CSV style objects that *easily* integrate into LaTeX, keep their format etc. Thanks Christian - Christian Langkamp christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-table-as-integrable-object-for-large-Latex-Documents-avoiding-SWeave-tp4640183.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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. __ 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.
Re: [R] R table as integrable object for large Latex Documents - avoiding SWeave
Hi Christian I also think that latex is the way to go having to regularly produce pdfs that are around 50-100+ pages. Why use powerpoint when you have Beamer or other latex packages to create a presentation. You would have done most of the work in the thesis so use what you have already done. Presentations can take time in powerpoint and there is forward/backward compatibility issues with Microsoft. Everybody has Adobe/Acrobat not all have MS The key to productivity is to have templates for graphs figures and tables in your text editor and amend to suit. For many column tables I use R to produce the column headings as the centred column headings are a different format to the body Just a matter of clicking on the template and supplying the column headings. HTH Duncan Duncan Mackay Department of Agronomy and Soil Science University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Email: home: mac...@northnet.com.au At 04:44 14/08/2012, you wrote: There is grid.table in the gridExtra package (http://code.google.com/p/gridextra/wiki/tableGrob), but for thesis tables I think you're better off trying to solve the difficulties you've been having with xtable. I can also recommend the latex function in the Hmisc package, which makes it easier to do things like specify row and column groups. Best, Ista On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, clangkamp christian.langk...@gmxpro.de wrote: Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative. I am currently writing my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown over time, I am sure many of you are familiar with the situation. Likewise I am doing the quantitative analysis with R, and again a lot of lines of more or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs (which one can wonderfully integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not sure. With Word / Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV integration with the Latex Packages is really cumbersome. My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...) which sort of do integration, but they require a lot of command definitions, requiring a lot of time to get right and ultimately also providing much of a source for errors. Thus my question is whether you know of any alternative how to create pictures or CSV style objects that *easily* integrate into LaTeX, keep their format etc. Thanks Christian - Christian Langkamp christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-table-as-integrable-object-for-large-Latex-Documents-avoiding-SWeave-tp4640183.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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. __ 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. __ 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.
[R] R Table
Given a table with colnames and rownames, print(mytable) displays the table nicely formatted. How can I capture all of what is displayed as a character matrix? Thanks. [[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.
Re: [R] R Table
Capture in what file format / device? If you want a plain text log, sink() or capture.output() probably will do it. MASS::write.table() might also help. I believe library(Hmisc) has some functions for converting to LaTeX tables as well, but I haven't used those myself. Michael On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ajay Askoolum aa2e...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Given a table with colnames and rownames, print(mytable) displays the table nicely formatted. How can I capture all of what is displayed as a character matrix? Thanks. [[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. __ 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.
Re: [R] R Table
My mistake: MASS::write.matrix() or utils::write.table() Michael On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:44 PM, R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com wrote: Capture in what file format / device? If you want a plain text log, sink() or capture.output() probably will do it. MASS::write.table() might also help. I believe library(Hmisc) has some functions for converting to LaTeX tables as well, but I haven't used those myself. Michael On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ajay Askoolum aa2e...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Given a table with colnames and rownames, print(mytable) displays the table nicely formatted. How can I capture all of what is displayed as a character matrix? Thanks. [[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. __ 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.
Re: [R] R Table
Thank you. I used capture.output(); this is fine. From: R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com Cc: R General Forum r-help@r-project.org Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 19:44 Subject: Re: [R] R Table Capture in what file format / device? If you want a plain text log, sink() or capture.output() probably will do it. MASS::write.table() might also help. I believe library(Hmisc) has some functions for converting to LaTeX tables as well, but I haven't used those myself. Michael Given a table with colnames and rownames, print(mytable) displays the table nicely formatted. How can I capture all of what is displayed as a character matrix? Thanks. [[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. [[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.
