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From R to LaTeX to pdf?

12 messages · Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg, Kevin E. Thorpe, Benoit Boulinguiez +8 more

Kevin E. Thorpe
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Joel F?rstenberg-H?gg wrote:
The output from xtable (above) is not a self-contained, complete
LaTeX file.  You need, at the very least, A \documentclass statement
at the beginning of the file and the code above needs to be inside a
\begin{document} ... \end{document} pair.

Then, the pdflatex (I beilieve this exists in MiKTeX) command builds
a pdf file.

Kevin

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Benoit Boulinguiez
    

    

      
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Hi Joel,

that's a LaTeX issue you have there, nothing wrong with R.
You should post your message on a LaTeX Forum about how to use LaTeX.

http://www.latex-community.org/
 


Regards


Benoit


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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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      Thomas Adams
    

    

      
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Joel,

You should consider using Sweave: 
http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/Sweave/ -or- 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweave

Regards,
Tom

        
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      Liviu Andronic
    

    

      
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Hello

        
On 11/24/09, Joel F?rstenberg-H?gg <joel_furstenberg_hagg at hotmail.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Take a look at the documentation of RcmdrPlugin.Export.
Regards
Liviu

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Tom Backer Johnsen
    

    

      
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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

        
Joel F?rstenberg-H?gg wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Ista Zahn
    

    

      
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2009/11/24 Tom Backer Johnsen <backer at psych.uib.no>:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I actually find that Hmisc::latex generates tables pretty much exactly
as I want them. For me, this is one of the greatest strengths of R
(well, R + LaTeX = Sweave actually).

-Ista

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Erik Iverson
    

    

      
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While what you say is true for base R, someone already mentioned Hmisc's latex function, and I have written several custom functions to output tables in LaTeX, the benefit being the elimination of manual formatting and intervention when preparing tables.  Add this in with Sweave and make files, and you have a chain where you can drop in a new dataset, type make, and have a brand new report with no manual intervention. 

Erik

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Tom Backer Johnsen
    

    

      
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I am sure you are right.  I myself have not looked at the LaTeX function 
in Hmisc, that really sounds interesting, and thank you.  On the other 
hand I had the impression (which may be wrong) that the original 
question was posed by someone with not too much experience.  If that is 
the case the suggestion to combine custom functions in R with Sweave 
might be overwhelming at the very least.  My alternative was definitely 
much less elegant, but would work for someone with less experience.

I use R in my courses, but allow my students to use other packages.  I 
am nevertheless always surprised at how many prefer R.  In any case, I 
tell students how to transfer results from any statistical program into 
MS Word which most prefer.  Since my field is psychology, the important 
standard is APA, which is quite complicated. In that situation, you 
really have to transfer things via a spreadsheet.  You would be stupid 
not to, especially in respect to SPSS.

Tom

        
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      Christopher W. Ryan
    

    

      
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Doesn't the APA package in LaTeX help in this situation?

--Chris Ryan

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      Frank E Harrell Jr
    

    

      
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Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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