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Sweave and executive summaries

3 messages · Karen_Byron at bd.com, Michael Kubovy, Dieter Menne

Karen_Byron at bd.com
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I'm learning to use R/Sweave/LaTeK to write my stat reports.  Is there a way
   to  have  an executive summary in the beginning while still having the
   analysis  code  embedded?   For example, a study has three independent
   objectives so I want my report to have three sections.  Ideally the code
   chunk  that answers the first objective would be embedded in the first
   section and so on.  However I want a table that summarizes the results from
   all three objectives at the beginning of the report.  Is there a way to
   generate a summary after the three sections but tell LaTeK to publish it
   first?  Possibly by rearranging the sections/pages?
   Currently I'm doing all the coding in a big block up front but that waste
   much of the advantage of weaving to me.
   If the right answer is 'post to a latek board' I'd be happy to get that
   feedback as well.
   Thank, Karen
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Dieter Menne
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<Karen_Byron <at> bd.com> writes:
Thanks to Ulrich Dietz from the German latex forum, I have an excellent
solution that can write summaries (for the top) and appendixes. It
is pure latex, but it main power comes when using it with rnw/Sweave.

<http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/8830a37d45dfca8e/5b3c72557b10e32b>

The idea is to have sections that are written out to a file similarly
to bibtex, and are collected later. You can download a minimal self-
running example from

http://www.menne-biomed.de/uni/appcol2.tex

(Make sure that you do not ask any more latex related questions here, 
you are running the risk of receiving a flame mail by higher authorities)


% -------- incomplete example -----
\begin{document}

\section{first section}
First paragraph.

\printsummary % Does what is says

<<results=tex>>.
cat("This is main text")
@

\begin{appendx} % appendix was taken
<<results=tex>>.
cat("This goes to appendix")
@
\end{appendx}

\begin{summary}
<<results=tex>>.
cat("This goes to summary")
@
\end{summary}

<<results=tex>>.
cat("Another  main text")
@

\printappendix
\end{document}