[R] From R to LaTeX to pdf?

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:
> As a general observation, few, if any, statistical packages, generate 
> tables in the format what you might think you need or want.  R is not an 
> exception.  Then it is better to transfer the table to a spreadsheet, 
> shift things around, add headers, etc..  The R2HTML library is useful 
> for that operation.  When things are the way you want it, transfer it to 
> LaTex via a text file, e.g. .csv.
> 
> Tom

Tom,

I'll take friendly exception with that recommendation, which is 
error-prone and is not consistent with reproducible research practice.

To see some of the power of the R-LaTeX approach see 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.pdf

That document was also converted to Word using pdftoword.com with the 
result available at 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.zip

Frank

> 
> Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Anyone experienced in the LaTeX format?
>>
>>  
>>
>> I'm trying to use the xtable package to create nice anova tables, but 
>> how do I do to produce a pdf from the resulting LaTeX table? I've 
>> tried WinShell and MiKTeX, but I couldn't get any of them working...
>>
>>  
>>
>> Here's an example of the output in R:
>>
>>  
>>
>> % latex table generated in R 2.9.2 by xtable 1.5-6 package
>> % Tue Nov 24 14:17:32 2009
>> \begin{tabular}{lrrrrr}
>>   \hline
>>  & Df & Sum Sq & Mean Sq & F value & Pr($>$F) \\   \hline
>> cat & 2 & 40.50 & 20.25 & 6.66 & 0.0019 \\   Residuals & 107 & 325.13 
>> & 3.04 &  &  \\    \hline
>> \end{tabular}
>>
>>  
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>  
>>
>> Joel
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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University