Chapter 22. Creating dynamic reports

Notebook of Reading Books: R in Action_Chapter 22.

This chapter covers

• Publishing results to the web

• Incorporating R results into Microsoft Word or Open Document reports

• Creating dynamic reports, where changing the data changes the report

• Creating publication quality documents with R, Markdown, and LaTeX

22.1. A template approach to reports

• Four types of template
  • R Markdown
  • ODT
  • DOCX
  • LaTex

22.2. Creating dynamic reports with R and Markdown

• Step by Step

  • install.packages(“rmarkdown) for older versions of RStudio
  • install.packages(“xtable”), which can attractively formats data frames and matrices for inclusion in reports.
  • install MacTeX software to generate PDF documentation

• To generate a html document for the women.Rmd template.

  

• To generate a nicely formatted PDF document for the womenPDF.Rmd template.

  

• To generate an attractive word document for the womenWord.Rmd template.

  

22.3. Creating dynamic reports with R and LaTeX

• LaTeX is powerful, But it requires significant study to use effectively and creates documents in formats (PDF, DVI, PS) that can’t be edited.

• With the text file drugs.Rnw:

  • Processed through the knit() function.

    • Resulting in the output file: drugs.tex and figure.

      

  • Processed through the knit2pdf() function.

    • Resulting in a typeset PDF document (drugs.pdf).

      

22.4. Creating dynamic reports with R and Open Document

• In the odfWeave() package.

22.5. Creating dynamic reports with R and Microsoft Word

• It’s only work on Windows platforms.
• In the R2wd() package.

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# Remove most objects from the working environment
rm(list = ls())
options(stringsAsFactors = F)


# 22.2. Creating dynamic reports with R and Markdown
# code listing 22.1. The document of women.Rmd: a Markdown template with embedded R code

# render the file
# setwd() to current path
library(rmarkdown)
render("women.Rmd", "html_document")

# render the file
library(rmarkdown)
# A new version of TeX Live has been released, so
# tinytex::reinstall_tinytex()
render("womenPDF.Rmd", "pdf_document")

# render the file
library(rmarkdown)
render("womenWord.Rmd", "word_document")


# 22.3. Creating dynamic reports with R and LaTeX
# code listing 22.2. drugs.Rnw: a sample LaTeX template with embedded R code

library(knitr)
knit("drugs.Rnw")

library(knitr)
knit2pdf("drugs.Rnw")