[R] Latex no where to be seen

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 15:53:35 CEST 2010


I will ask a variation on my favorite question that is on my signature line:

"Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it".

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:48 AM, David Hajage <dhajage.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> "It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can produce
> the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis
> software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Oracle
> Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc)"
>
> To do some reports, most of R users use Sweave and other Sweave-like systems
> that have been already listed in another mail. Why don't you try what is
> currently existing? What is the kind of report you want, that you can't
> produce with Sweave?
>
> david
> 2010/8/20 Donald Paul Winston <satchwinston at yahoo.com>
>
>>
>> I'm experimenting using R as a report writer. I'm told LaTex is the
>> destination for my quest. But ?latex() gives me an error. The package
>> manager does not have it. The package installer can't find it. Where is it?
>>
>> It amazes me that there's not a built in "report" function that can produce
>> the same kinds of reports that every report writer and data analysis
>> software in the whole word can do. (see SAS, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Oracle
>> Reports, Actuate, Hyperion, Cognos, ..etc)
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