Jason Rupert
2009-Mar-11 11:58 UTC
[R] odfWeave & xtable still best packages to produce tables?
Just a quick question - I did a quick search of the R-search (http://search.r-project.org/nmz.html) [thanks to David Winsemius for recommending this neat R search engine] and R-seek (http://www.rseek.org/) trying to find a package(s) in order to produce publication quality tables. I found several references to odfWeave and xtable. My question is, are those still best R packages to produce publication quality tables tables from R? Thank you for any feedback and insights. P.S. I know I should be trying to "Using Graphs Instead of Tables", but some customers (bosses) still like seeing tables. Thanks again:)
Max Kuhn
2009-Mar-11 13:52 UTC
[R] odfWeave & xtable still best packages to produce tables
Jason,> I found several references to odfWeave and xtable. ?My question is, are those still best R packages to produce publication quality tables tables from R?I think the file type you want (and how you will use the output) should probably drive your choice. If you are going to pdf, then Sweave/xtable/Hmisc:::latex are the best choices. If you are going to a more editable file format (doc or odt), then consider odfWeave or pdf/odf converter (which I think what Dr. Harrell does). HTML is always an option, but you'll have to covert the document if that is not your target format. -- Max