R help - Jun 2010 - Creating reports using R

is there a good way to generate reports in R? I found the following code using
split.screen but this only works with plots and i would like to generate reports
with tables and charts. thx

 

 
if (interactive()) {
par(bg = "white")           # default is likely to be transparent
split.screen(c(2,1))        # split display into two screens
split.screen(c(1,3), screen = 2) # now split the bottom half into 3
screen(1) # prepare screen 1 for output
plot(10:1)
screen(4) # prepare screen 4 for output
plot(10:1)
close.screen(all = TRUE)    # exit split-screen mode

split.screen(c(2,1))        # split display into two screens
split.screen(c(1,2),2)      # split bottom half in two
plot(1:10)                  # screen 3 is active, draw plot
erase.screen()              # forgot label, erase and redraw
plot(1:10, ylab= "ylab 3")
screen(1)                   # prepare screen 1 for output
plot(1:10)
screen(4)                   # prepare screen 4 for output
plot(1:10, ylab="ylab 4")
screen(1, FALSE)            # return to screen 1, but do not clear
plot(10:1, axes=FALSE, lty=2, ylab="")  # overlay second plot
axis(4)                     # add tic marks to right-hand axis
title("Plot 1")
close.screen(all = TRUE)    # exit split-screen mode
}
 		 	   		  
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John Antonakakis wrote:
> is there a good way to generate reports in R? I found the following code
> using split.screen but this only works with plots and i would like to
> generate reports with tables and charts. thx
The answer is definitively yes, and you can spend a lot of time learning about 
how to do it, and none of it will be wasted.

There are many methods, and your course will depend on what you want you 
ultimate output to be.  Popular options are PDF (through LaTeX), HTML, and Word.

You'll want to check out the Sweave line of solutions, which let you embed R
code into, say, LaTeX.  There is also odfWeave and other Word-y solutions that 
I'm not as familiar with.

Frank Harrell has some good examples of this sort of thing on his web site, see:

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/StatReport