I'm experimenting using R as a report writer. I'm told LaTex is the destination for my quest. But ?latex() gives me an error. The package manager does not have it. The package installer can't find it. Where is it? It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can produce the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Oracle Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Latex-no-where-to-be-seen-tp2332139p2332139.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Dear (person who did not put her name under her message unless it's --), maybe whoever told you referred to the system latex command. You could also issue '??tex' at the R-prompt. When I then search for 'TeX' I quickly find 'tools::texi2dvi Compile LaTeX Files' Is that what you are looking for? Cheers, Tim On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:18:36PM -0700, Donald Paul Winston wrote:> > I'm experimenting using R as a report writer. I'm told LaTex is the > destination for my quest. But ?latex() gives me an error. The package > manager does not have it. The package installer can't find it. Where is it? > > It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can produce > the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis > software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Oracle > Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc) > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Latex-no-where-to-be-seen-tp2332139p2332139.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20100820/7f566827/attachment.bin>
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Donald Paul Winston <satchwinston at yahoo.com> wrote:> > I'm experimenting using R as a report writer. I'm told LaTex is the > destination for my quest. But ?latex() gives me an error. The package > manager does not have it. The package installer can't find it. Where is it?Have you tried RSiteSearch("latex")? LaTeX is not an R package, but a separate system for beautiful typesetting. It is slightly unfortunate that searching on google for LaTeX ignores the capitalisation and can return results for rubber products, but RSiteSearch is your friend here.> It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can produce > the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis > software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Oracle > Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc)It amazes me even more that each of these report writers either a) uses MS Word output which is ugly typesetting (especially equations) or b) has to implement its own self-developed typesetting system. No wonder Windows software seems bloated and expensive. In the Open Source and Unix world (which is where LaTeX originated, although it is cross-platform) the idea is that you have one thing that does one thing well, and then everyone can leverage that. So, what you probably want is MikTeX on your Windows box, or check for latex in your Linux package management system (apt, yum, whatever, you didn't tell us your system), or do whatever hipster MacOS fanbois do. Barry
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Donald Paul Winston <satchwinston at yahoo.com> wrote:> > I'm experimenting using R as a report writer. I'm told LaTex is the > destination for my quest. But ?latex() gives me an error. The packageJust as a side note, using ?foo() will always return an error. If there were a latex() function, you would drop the parentheses (i.e., ?latex ) to bring up the documentation.> manager does not have it. The package installer can't find it. Where is it? > > It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can produce > the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis > software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Oracle > Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc) > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Latex-no-where-to-be-seen-tp2332139p2332139.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/
On 08/19/2010 11:18 PM, Donald Paul Winston wrote:> > I'm experimenting using R as a report writer. I'm told LaTex is the > destination for my quest. But ?latex() gives me an error. The package > manager does not have it. The package installer can't find it. Where is it? > > It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can produce > the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis > software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Oracle > Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc)As others have mentioned, LaTeX is a completely separate system with its own book, community, etc. However, it is useful and open source, so implementing yet another reporting system would not be necessary. There are several ways to generate LaTeX code from R objects. See the xtable and Hmisc packages for instance. There is also the Sweave package, that lets you write your R code within a LaTeX document, eliminating all copying and pasting steps, and making the process of updating the same report with new data easy. See some examples at http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/Sweave/ There is also the rreport package from Frank Harrell's group: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/StatReport
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That is not true. ?plot() gives me the appropriate help page. (R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) Mac OS X) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Latex-no-where-to-be-seen-tp2332139p2332577.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi,> It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can produce > the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis > software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Oracle > Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc)I think R is a very good language for general programming and an even better domain specific language for statistical computing. It is not a BI or reporting software package. That does not mean you can't use R for BI and reporting. Simply program your analysis and graphics part in R. Write the results into a database and the plots to files (for example). Then use one of the real good reporting tools available (e.g. eclipse BIRT), define your reports, connect to the database, fetch the analysis results and load the graphics. A really powerful reporting tool within R would be nice too, I agree. Would you like to write a package for this (assuming there is none at the moment). -- ---- Friedrich Schuster Dompfaffenweg 6 69123 Heidelberg