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nice report generator?

Duncan, 

If you are taking suggestions for expanding the tables package (looks great) then I would suggest some way to get the tables into MS products.  If I create a full output/report myself then I am happy to work in LaTeX, but much of what I do is to produce tables and graphs to clients that don't know LaTeX and just want something that they can copy and paste into powerpoint or word.  For this I have been using the R2wd package (and the wdTable function for the tables).  I would love to have some toolset that I could use your tables package to create the main table, then transfer it fairly simply to word or excel.  I don't care much about the fluff of how the table looks (coloring rows or columns, line widths, etc.) just getting it into a table (not just the text version).

One possibility is just an as.matrix method that would produce something that I could feed to wdTable.  Or just a textual representation of the table with columns separated by tabs so that it could be copied to the clipboard then pasted into excel or word (I would then let the client deal with all the tweaks on the appearance).

Thanks,

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:52 PM
To: Tal Galili
Cc: r-help
Subject: Re: [R] nice report generator?
On 11-12-08 1:37 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
I'm not that familiar with the reshape package (and neither it nor 
reshape2 appears to have a vignette to give me an overview), so I don't 
have any idea if that makes sense.  The table package is made to work on 
dataframes, and only dataframes.  It converts them into matrices with 
lots of attributes, so that the print methods can put nice labels on. 
But it's strictly rectangular to rectangular in the kinds of conversions 
it does, and from the little I know about reshape, it works on more 
general arrays, converting them to and from dataframes.
You'll have to give an example of what you want to do.

Duncan Murdoch
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