[R] From R to LaTeX to pdf?

[Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg]

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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[Kevin E. Thorpe]

Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg wrote:
> Hi all,
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>
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> 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...
>
>
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> Here's an example of the output in R:
>
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> % 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}

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

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> Best regards,
>
>
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> Joel

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[Benoit Boulinguiez]

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]

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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[Stephan Devriese]

2009/11/24 Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg <joel_furst...@hotmail.com>

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You could also have a look at the latex function in the Hmisc package

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[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On 11/24/09, Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg <joel_furst...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>

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

[Tom Backer Johnsen]

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

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[Ista Zahn]

2009/11/24 Tom Backer Johnsen <bac...@psych.uib.no>:

> 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.

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

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[Erik Iverson]

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]

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

[cr...@binghamton.edu]

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

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[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

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