[R] formatted output facilities ... was ..Oddity with internet access and R 11.0 - solved

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 24, 2010, at 8:06 AM, chrishold at psyctc.org wrote:

> Ah, Dr. Who's got nothing on me!
>
> Beg pardon, I'm recuperating from an operation and clearly more than
> usually disoriented.  I meant 2.10.1 and 2.11.0 of course.
>
> Now that I'm here, courtesy of my time slip, what I'd really love to  
> see
> in R 10.0.0, or even 2.12.0, is the choice to have output either in  
> the
> current plain text or to some simple formatting primitives that would
> have default tabs & tables for matrices etc. and allow embedded
> graphics.  I'd love to be able to opt to save that as HTML, XML, TeX,
> RTF, ODF wihthout the complexities of Sweave, ODFWeave, R2HTML etc.
>
> I know the complexities of Sweave etc. are child's play to numerically
> and computer gifted people such as yourself Professor, and the R core
> team, but for those of us who proselytise for R to mere psychologists,
> doctors, psychotherapists etc., that complexity is hard and the  
> hassles
> of reformatting text to nice tables etc. discourages people from  
> coming
> across from SPSS I know.

-- 
 > require(xtable)
Loading required package: xtable
 > ?xtable

-- 
David (a mere doctor).
>
> OK, back into my tardis and thanks for the correction!!
>
> Chris
>
> Prof Brian Ripley sent the following  at 24/04/2010 11:57:
>
>> Could you please explain how you manage to travel to the future to  
>> get
>> access to R 11.0[.0] and 10.1.0.  I'm sure the other R developers  
>> would
>> also love to know what new features we are going to implement in the
>> next several decades.
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Chris Evans wrote:
>>
>>> Just in case anyone else hits this.  I just installed R 11.0  
>>> alongside R
>>> 10.1.0 (off my D: drive in D:\R\... but I think that's irrelevent)  
>>> and
>>> all went well, I selected my nearest CRAN mirror (Bristol is the  
>>> one I
>>> like) and getting the selection list seemed to take ages though it  
>>> did
>>> come eventually.  However, I then got an error message saying that R
>>> couldn't make contact on port 80.  I rechecked with R 10.1.0:  
>>> fine.  I
>>> reinstalled R 11.0.0 and selected "internet2" instead of  
>>> "standard" for
>>> internet, no change.
>>>
>>> I thought "Can't be the firewall as it wouldn't get the list of  
>>> mirrors"
>>> but I went into Sophos firewall and manually added R 11.0.0 and
>>> everything is now fine.
>>>
>>> Very odd and I'd be interested to hear if some clever person can  
>>> explain
>>> why R 11.0.0 was making (very slow) access to the internet to get  
>>> the
>>> list of mirrors but then failing (I have the 10.1.0 location in the
>>> windows path but not, yet, the 11.0.0 one, could it be that?)
>>>
>>> However, ultimately this seems to me to be a problem with Sophos's
>>> firewall not R and I'm just reporting it here in case anyone else  
>>> sees
>>> the same and finds this helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks to the R team, yet again, for an amazing product!
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Chris Evans <chris at psyctc.org> Skype: chris-psyctc
>>> Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts. PDD network;
>>> Trust Research Governance Lead and Clinical Director, Psychological
>>> Therapies Directorate in Local Services, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust;
>>> Professor, Psychotherapy, Nottingham University
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>>> Otherwise*
>>> *my views are my own and not representative of those  
>>> institutions    *
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>>> reply,
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>>> uk
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>>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Chris Evans <chris at psyctc.org> Skype: chris-psyctc
> Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts. PDD network;
> Trust Research Governance Lead and Clinical Director, Psychological
>  Therapies Directorate in Local Services, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust;
> Professor, Psychotherapy, Nottingham University
> *If I am writing from one of those roles, it will be clear. Otherwise*
> *my views are my own and not representative of those institutions    *
> If you have difficulty Emailing me on this address or getting a reply,
> send again but cc to:       chris dot evans at nottshc dot nhs dot uk
> and to:                     c dot evans at nottingham dot ac dot uk
>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT