[R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries

[Donald Ingram]

Wensui,

I work for 'A' electronics test equipment corporation.
I have been using R ( since 1.6 ) instead of MATLAB etc. as a general 
language for data analysis and graph generation.
On they way to R I tried  Python/Scipy, Scilab and others - but R wins 
in quality and ease of use (it just needs  DSP and GPIB/HPIB libraries 
to be perfect ).

LaTeX is also my document  tool of choice ..

However LaTeX generated  pdfs sent out as reports are much disliked.

MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel are the standards, and very importantly 
they offer cut and paste ability across the larger team.
MS's offerings comes no where near to the quality of LaTex / R, but in 
world of shared authorship - it's a one sided battle.

My other PC universe vs Unix/OS X problem is vector / Meta-file 
graphics - essential for quality reports.
Postscript, PDF and MS products just don't play. The newest Office and  
Visio  versions seem  to be  dropping even more of the postscript 
import and export filters ( which never work very well anyway ).

I have never met any other colleagues who use LaTeX or R.

Any one else sharing the same  experiences ?


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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:38:55 -0400
From: Wensui Liu <liuwensui at gmail.com>
Subject: [R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries
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Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are
used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why?

How about the opinion of other listers? Thanks.