R help - Aug 2012 - R table as integrable object for large Latex Documents - avoiding SWeave

Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative.
I am currently writing my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown
over time, I am sure many of you are familiar with the situation. Likewise I
am doing the quantitative analysis with R, and again a lot of lines of more
or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs (which one can wonderfully
integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not sure. With
Word / Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV integration with the
Latex Packages is really cumbersome.

My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...)
which sort of do integration, but they require a lot of command definitions,
requiring a lot of time to get right and ultimately also providing much of a
source for errors. Thus my question is whether you know of any alternative
how to create pictures or CSV style objects that *easily* integrate into
LaTeX, keep their format etc.

Thanks
Christian



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There is grid.table in the gridExtra package
(http://code.google.com/p/gridextra/wiki/tableGrob), but for thesis
tables I think you're better off trying to solve the difficulties
you've been having with xtable. I can also recommend the latex
function in the Hmisc package, which makes it easier to do things like
specify row and column groups.

Best,
Ista

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, clangkamp
<christian.langkamp at gmxpro.de> wrote:
> Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative.
> I am currently writing my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown
> over time, I am sure many of you are familiar with the situation. Likewise
I
> am doing the quantitative analysis with R, and again a lot of lines of more
> or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs (which one can wonderfully
> integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not sure. With
> Word / Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV integration with
the
> Latex Packages is really cumbersome.
>
> My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...)
> which sort of do integration, but they require a lot of command
definitions,
> requiring a lot of time to get right and ultimately also providing much of
a
> source for errors. Thus my question is whether you know of any alternative
> how to create pictures or CSV style objects that *easily* integrate into
> LaTeX, keep their format etc.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
>
>
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> Christian Langkamp
> christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de
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On 13/08/12 18:46, clangkamp wrote:
> Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative. I
am currently writing
> my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown over time, I am sure
many of you are
> familiar with the situation. Likewise I am doing the quantitative analysis
with R, and again a
> lot of lines of more or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs
(which one can
> wonderfully integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not
sure. With Word /
> Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV integration with the Latex
Packages is really
> cumbersome.
> 
> My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...)
which sort of do
> integration, but they require a lot of command definitions, requiring a lot
of time to get
> right and ultimately also providing much of a source for errors. Thus my
question is whether
> you know of any alternative how to create pictures or CSV style objects
that *easily* integrate
> into LaTeX, keep their format etc.
You effectively have two options:

1) process the table in R to create a LaTeX file which you can insert into your
LaTeX document
(see response from Ista), or

2) you can export your data as a csv file, and then process it in LaTeX. There
are several
packages, which can read csv files and format it as a table (e.g.
http://mancoosi.org/~abate/latex-tables-csv-files, or
http://texblog.org/2012/05/30/generate-latex-tables-from-csv-files-excel/) .

Depending on how complicated your table is, if it is a longtable, or landscape,
the one option
might work better then the other, and it depends on your preferences.

Some editors actually offer the option to import a csv file and convert it to
LaTeX, gnumeric (and
possibly LibreOffice) can export to LaTeX, but I would possibly use option 2) or
1)

Cheers,

Rainer
> 
> Thanks Christian
> 
> 
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