[R] printing tables to a pdf

[Greg Snow]

There are a few different ways that this can be accomplished.

The method I would suggest is to use one of the variants of Sweave.

You can either use the original Sweave (?Sweave) or the odfWeave
package.

Using the original Sweave you would create a template file that combines
LaTeX commands (headers, etc.) and instructions to R on how to create
your tables.  Running this through  the Sweave function in R will create
a LaTeX file that you can then process to create a pdf file (using
pdflatex or similar).

The odfWeave package works similarly, but instead of the template using
LaTeX commands, you create the template file using open office
(http://www.openoffice.org) which is a free program that is compatible
with MS office (Word for this case).  You again create a document that
includes the headers and other information, then also include R commands
for creating the tables (there is an odfTable function to help with
this).  Process the template file with the odfWeave function and you end
up with another openoffice document, but this time it has your tables
included.  Open this file with openoffice and use openoffice to convert
it to a pdf file (click of a button, future versions may allow for a
command line conversion).

Hope this helps,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
(801) 408-8111
 
 

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> Dear R community,
>        I wish to print tables into a pdf file. How can this 
> be done, adding headers and several tables to the same file?
> 
> Thanking you for your attention,
> Georg.
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> Georg Ehret
> Johns Hopkins
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