[R] Transfer Crosstable to Word-Document

[John Kane]

I don't use Word much but an xtable (html) seems to
import with no trouble. Thanks for reminding me that
it works well with OOo.   

--- Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:

> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 2008 5:28 PM, David Scott
> <d.scott at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> >   
> >> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Alan Zaslavsky wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> If you want to get nicely formatted tables in
> Word and are familiar with
> >>> Office tools (I know it's the Evil Empire but
> some of us work there), I
> >>> suggest that you use Excel for formatting and
> then insert the table into
> >>> your Word document.  IMHO, Excel is much
> superior to Word for table
> >>> formatting, e.g. modifying number of significant
> digits, playing around
> >>> with fonts and number formats, etc.  And when
> you have gotten the formats
> >>> right you can paste in modified values of the
> numbers in the table without
> >>> having to do the formatting again.  Including
> the table in your Word
> >>> document is easy by cut-paste or creating a live
> link.
> >>>
> >>> As a user of R under Unix I haven't looked into
> the facilities for writing
> >>> tables to Excel under Windows but there is
> something there.  Alternatively
> >>> you can write a fixed-column or tab-delimited
> file and easily import to
> >>> Excel.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Production of tables and formatting them in Word
> is something I have dealt
> >> with a couple of times recently and it really is
> important to do something
> >> smart because of the time taken to individually
> format tables.
> >>
> >> An approach I used recently was to produce a text
> table in R and export it
> >> to Excel as a .csv file which could then be
> copied as is to Word. Borders
> >> and the like would still have to be formatted
> individually but not entries
> >>     
> >
> > You could get a border automatically by writing
> your table out
> > as HTML.  Try this using the builtin data frame
> iris:
> >
> > library(R2HTML)
> > HTML(iris, border = 1, file("clipboard","w"),
> append=FALSE)
> >
> > Now paste that into Excel and from Excel into Word
> and you should
> > have a border around it.
> >
> > See ?HTML.data.frame
> >
> > You could alternately generate the HTML yourself
> giving quite a bit
> > of control.
> >   
> Just curious (I don't use Word if I can help it --
> even the simplest of 
> things drive me up the wall), but can you not import
> HTML directly in 
> Word? OpenOffice seems to do it quite happily with
> xtable output.
> 
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