R help - Oct 2010 - Text wrapping in R

I am about to give an introduction to R to some clinical data managers
used to SAS. There is already a lot of material in printed form and
on the web that paves the way. What I haven't found so far are text
wrapping capabilities in setting tables in raw text as in SAS PROC
REPORT. 

At the moment i would direct them at producing HTML output from R
and pipe the result through lynx. Coming from SAS they may not be
prepared to walk the Unix way of choosing the best tool for the 
right job. Have I overlooked a package that does something similar
to SAS PROC REPORT?
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                              One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture 
mailto:johannes at huesing.name  from such a trifling investment of fact.
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2010/10/25 Johannes Huesing <johannes@huesing.name>
> I am about to give an introduction to R to some clinical data managers
> used to SAS. There is already a lot of material in printed form and
> on the web that paves the way. What I haven't found so far are text
> wrapping capabilities in setting tables in raw text as in SAS PROC
> REPORT.
>
> At the moment i would direct them at producing HTML output from R
> and pipe the result through lynx. Coming from SAS they may not be
> prepared to walk the Unix way of choosing the best tool for the
> right job. Have I overlooked a package that does something similar
> to SAS PROC REPORT?
> --
>

Do you know Sweave, could this be a tool of choice?


Uwe

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Uwe Ziegenhagen
<http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>

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I would demonstrate one of the many LaTeX table functions.  Off hand,
packages xtable, hmisc, and quantreg all have functions that convert R
objects to LaTeX tables.

If they're unwilling to work in LaTeX, you can use something like
LaTeXiT or Laeqed to create PDFs or PNGs of the tables for insertion
into whatever report tool they use.  Note that the latter will require
a change to the preamble to not constantly be in math mode.

Mac: http://www.chachatelier.fr/programmation/latexit_en.php
Windows: http://www.thrysoee.dk/laeqed/

Hope that helps,

Jeff.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Johannes Huesing
<johannes at huesing.name> wrote:
> I am about to give an introduction to R to some clinical data managers
> used to SAS. There is already a lot of material in printed form and
> on the web that paves the way. What I haven't found so far are text
> wrapping capabilities in setting tables in raw text as in SAS PROC
> REPORT.
>
> At the moment i would direct them at producing HTML output from R
> and pipe the result through lynx. Coming from SAS they may not be
> prepared to walk the Unix way of choosing the best tool for the
> right job. Have I overlooked a package that does something similar
> to SAS PROC REPORT?
> --
> Johannes H?sing ? ? ? ? ? ? ? There is something fascinating about science.
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture
> mailto:johannes at huesing.name ?from such a trifling investment of fact.
> http://derwisch.wikidot.com ? ? ? ? (Mark Twain, "Life on the
Mississippi")
>
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