[R] Transferring results from R to MS Word

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 15:40:38 CET 2008


Seems there is a bug in one of the HTML methods in that digits=
either does not get passed or used in certain cases.  It does seem
that the HTML.data.frame method is not affected so this would
be a workaround:

HTML2clip(as.data.frame(mean(attitude)), digits = 10)


On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no> wrote:
> To reply to myself, for anything that can be coerced into a table (matrices,
> vectors) the best solution seems to to use the write.table () function to
> write a .csv file, which is easily opened with a spreadsheet.
>
> The alternative is to use the HTML2clip () function (or the HTML function)
> in the R2HTML library and then paste the clipboard into Excel.  That
> alternative seems to be OK for objects as returned by the lm () function,
> but little else.  Among other things, the function is extremely heavyhanded
> in respect to rounding.  To see what I mean, try HTML2clip (mean(attitude)).
>
> So, are there any other alternatives?
>
> Tom
>
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