[gov1000-list] Tables in LaTeX

This message appeared on the R-announce mailing list today. I am pleased to announce a major revision of the document "Statistical Tables and Plots using S and LaTeX". It is available at http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/doc/summary.pdf (76 pages, 500K). It should be of interest to those who produce statistical reports or those who use or would be interested in using LaTeX, the greatest productivity tool for document processing in my opinion. -- Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat My comments: 1) Looks like good stuff. It will probably be helpful for 2001. 2) One complication is that Harrell makes much of his code available in some R packages that are not distributed as part the stanard R distribution. We didn't get into the issue of how you get other packages and how you install them in GOV 1000, but this is a skill that you might want to pick up. 3) Depending how useful you find this to (potentially) be, you can lobby the appropriate authorities to install these packages as part of the main R installation. Dave -- David Kane Lecturer In Government 617-563-0122 dkane(a)latte.harvard.edu Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html