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...rying to build the notation for combination as the function \code{choose} in a *.Rd file; but it is not working. To reduce to essence \deqn{ \left( \begin{array}{c} r-1 \\ n \end{array} \right) } I have double checked the latex logic (without \deqn{}) in LaTexIT on MacOSX so it seems fine. I've read the R-ext.pdf and down some searching in the archives--stumped. R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf renders something like this ( r-1\n ) Advice? Thanks. Wil

I am about to give an introduction to R to some clinical data managers used to SAS. There is already a lot of material in printed form and on the web that paves the way. What I haven't found so far are text wrapping capabilities in setting tables in raw text as in SAS PROC REPORT. At the moment i would direct them at producing HTML output from R and pipe the result through lynx. Coming from

...with colleagues which contains mathematical notation. We all do a lot of LaTeX, so we tend to just drop LaTeX math notation into plaintext; expressions such as `\{ x \mid x^2 \in S \}` are easy to type, and in simple cases fairly easy to read. More complex equations I use a tool to render. (LaTeXit on the Mac works well.) I've grown to use Markdown syntax whenever I'm writing plain text; occasionally this means that something that's evolved via email can just be cut and pasted into a "proper" document for web publishing. But it seems ridiculous that the most non...