Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

wrote: From: Frank E Harrell Jr Subject: Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7:44 PM Ted I can't resist offering my $.02, which is that I'm puzzled why LaTeX, being free, flexible, and powerful

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

quot; high tec way of producing most documents in late 1960s and 1970s. Heck,when I learned to type we didn't even have electric typewriters! --- On Thu, 5/6/10, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > From: Frank E Harrell Jr > Subject: Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R"

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format? (shaping R core)

For simply doing tables xtable has done some nice work for me. --- On Fri, 5/7/10, Joris Meys wrote: > From: Joris Meys > Subject: Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word > format? (shaping R core) > To: "Duncan Murdoch" > Cc:

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format? (shaping R core)

Well, there's always RExcel to get all your R stuff into something M$ Ruffice can understand. And they're even working on a Word link if I got it right. Cheers Joris On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > chrish...@psyctc.org wrote: > >> I've changed the subject line a bit here

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format? (shaping R core)

chrish...@psyctc.org wrote: I've changed the subject line a bit here as Max is asking such a fundamental question. Max Kuhn sent the following at 01/05/2010 19:22: Chris, ... Why is it R Core's job to fulfill your wants and desires? I have a hard time thinking that very busy peo

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

On 05/07/2010 07:00 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: ... I think it's the whole geek/suit divide thing. Back when only geeks had computers we had LaTeX, and FORTRAN, and S, and Unix (and VAX/VMS). But then the suits thought 'hey, we can make money out of this', and computers started working their wa

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > Ted I can't resist offering my $.02, which is that I'm puzzled why LaTeX, > being free, flexible, and powerful, is used only by millions of people and > not tens of millions. I think it's the whole geek/suit divide thing. Back when onl

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

On 05/07/2010 06:07 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: ... How about an R "device" called xml? This would implement the XML "extensible markup language" which is basically capable of encapsulating any formatted material. Ted, this is perhaps a better idea than you think. Much of the latest and greatest

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

On 05/06/2010 07:28 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote: On 06-May-10 23:44:50, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: Ted I can't resist offering my $.02, which is that I'm puzzled why LaTeX, being free, flexible, and powerful, is used only by millions of people and not tens of millions. Frank I think, Frank, that i

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

On 06-May-10 23:44:50, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > Ted I can't resist offering my $.02, which is that I'm puzzled why > LaTeX, being free, flexible, and powerful, is used only by millions of > people and not tens of millions. > > Frank I think, Frank, that it's because when you use software lik

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

Ted I can't resist offering my $.02, which is that I'm puzzled why LaTeX, being free, flexible, and powerful, is used only by millions of people and not tens of millions. Frank On 05/06/2010 03:07 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote: Replying to Chris's latest message for the sake of preserving the thre

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Ted Harding wrote: > Given what he said in his latest message, I now have even more > sympathy. It's not about begging in the streets for someone to > charitably do the job for him! It's a job that could be a service > to many, and if it attracts enough enthusiasm

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS

Replying to Chris's latest message for the sake of preserving the thread, but deleting all of it to save space. Except: I had sympathy with Chris's original query, on the grounds that it was a good enquiry in principle, essentially pokinting towards the problem of incorporating R's formatted outpu

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format? (shaping R core)

I've changed the subject line a bit here as Max is asking such a fundamental question. Max Kuhn sent the following at 01/05/2010 19:22: > Chris, > ... > Why is it R Core's job to fulfill your wants and desires? I have a > hard time thinking that very busy people would spend extra time doing > s

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Tal Galili sent the following at 06/05/2010 17:33: > Hi Chris, > > Following this thread, I started experimenting with the R2wd package myself. > > I wrote to the developer who gave me some promising news (that is - that > an updated package is expected to be released in the next couple of month

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

I remembered this post too: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-September/212084.html I wonder if there is a beta version of Duncan's package. Thanks, Max On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Tal Galili wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Following this thread, I started experimenting with the R2wd

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Hi Chris, Following this thread, I started experimenting with the R2wd package myself. I wrote to the developer who gave me some promising news (that is - that an updated package is expected to be released in the next couple of months) I wrote about this, and gave an example session on what I fou

[R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Hi Max, It looks like most of answers were towards to the statisticians you work with (i.e. R -> Word).  For yourself, if you just worry about converting the PDF reports from your statisticians to Word, here is another link with a more comprehensive review besides the two online apps Prof. Ha

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

On 05/03/2010 08:47 AM, Chris Evans wrote: Thanks Tal& Thomas, I am now experimenting with both SWord and R2wd and both are certainly a huge step forward for me, tied as I am to Word and the Windoze/M$ world for now. Chris Note that many of the general solutions offered produce documents (.do

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Thanks Tal & Thomas, I am now experimenting with both SWord and R2wd and both are certainly a huge step forward for me, tied as I am to Word and the Windoze/M$ world for now. Chris Tal Galili sent the following at 01/05/2010 09:44: > Hi all, > I forwarded this question to the r-com mailing li

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

I normally do not post "thank-yous" to listservs but this is really quite a remarkable response and I really appreciate the guidance. I am certain that this will increase the accuracy and productivity of our research. Best of wishes, Max Max Gunther, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Depa

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Chris, > 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 t

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Another option is to use ascii package . Just choose your favorite markup language (asciidoc, txt2tags , restructuredtext, org-mode

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Chris Evans 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

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Hi all, I forwarded this question to the r-com mailing list, and received the following reply from Thomas Baier : Hi Tal, two solutions immediately come to my mind: SWord (http://rcom.univie.ac.at) and R2wd (from CRAN). If creating a paper in Word, then SWord may be the better choice, if you w

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

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 xt

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

On 05/01/2010 08:13 AM, Max Gunther wrote: Dear "R" list, Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I would like to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly into a Microsoft Word table since this will save us tons of time, be more accurate to minimize human

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

On 04/30/2010 05:45 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Max Gunther wrote: Dear "R" list, Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I would like to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly into a Microsoft Word table since this will save

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Greg Snow wrote: When I work with clients who want to cut and paste to word or powerpoint I usually use the odfWeave package, set up a template file with the tables and graphs (possibly other output), then I run that through odfWeave and then use openoffice to save the results as a word file that

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Greg Snow wrote: When I work with clients who want to cut and paste to word or powerpoint I usually use the odfWeave package, set up a template file with the tables and graphs (possibly other output), then I run that through odfWeave and then use openoffice to save the results as a word file that

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Marc Schwartz Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:46 PM To: Max Gunther Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format? On Apr 30, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Max Gunther wrote: > Dear "

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Subject: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS > Word format? > > Dear "R" list, > > Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I would > like > to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

On Apr 30, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Max Gunther wrote: > Dear "R" list, > > Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I would like > to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly into a Microsoft > Word table since this will save us tons of time, be more accurate to >

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

On 04/30/2010 05:13 PM, Max Gunther wrote: Dear "R" list, Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I would like to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly into a Microsoft Word table since this will save us tons of time, be more accurate to minimize human

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Max Gunther wrote: > Dear "R" list, > > Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I would like > to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly into a Microsoft > Word table since this will save us tons of time, be more accurate

Re: [R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

On Apr 30, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Max Gunther wrote: Dear "R" list, Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I would like to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly into a Microsoft Word table since this will save us tons of time, be more accurate to min

[R] What is the best way to have "R" output tables in an MS Word format?

Dear "R" list, Our statisticians usually give us results back in a PDF format. I would like to be able to copy and past tables from "R" output directly into a Microsoft Word table since this will save us tons of time, be more accurate to minimize human copying errors and help us update data in our