R help - Sep 2008 - R2HTML: output from for-loops

Hi,

I am trying to prepare a report with R2HTML using 
HTMLStart(outdir="./html", filename="report", echo=T,
HTMLframe=F)

then, for instance, I want to get the output of a loop:
for (i in 1:20) print(summary(rnorm(1000)))

but only the first of summaries really ends up in the html file.
What am I doing wrongly?

Thanks,
  Werner


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The problem is probably due to what is considered a top level expression to be
evaluated and how R2HTML processes these.

A simpler alternative is to use txtStart() or etxtStart() from the TeachingDemos
package.  These work similar to HTMLStart(), but don't do the html markup
(the etxt version does a little bit of markup, but you need to postprocess the
file with enscript).

These functions being simpler handle the output in a different way and a quick
test shows that the loop you show below does work with these.

Hope this helps,

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> Subject: [R] R2HTML: output from for-loops
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to prepare a report with R2HTML using
> HTMLStart(outdir="./html", filename="report", echo=T,
HTMLframe=F)
>
> then, for instance, I want to get the output of a loop:
> for (i in 1:20) print(summary(rnorm(1000)))
>
> but only the first of summaries really ends up in the html file.
> What am I doing wrongly?
>
> Thanks,
>   Werner
>
>
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Werner Wernersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to prepare a report with R2HTML using 
> HTMLStart(outdir="./html", filename="report", echo=T,
HTMLframe=F)
>
> then, for instance, I want to get the output of a loop:
> for (i in 1:20) print(summary(rnorm(1000)))
>
> but only the first of summaries really ends up in the html file.
> What am I doing wrongly?
>   
Hi Werner,
I don't think you are doing anything wrong. I tried running a loop with 
the htmlize function in the prettyR package and it seems to work okay.

Jim