With the right set of functions you will find far greater flexibility than SAS,
and prettier formatting. See for example the summary.formula function in the
Hmisc library, and the following document:
http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/doc/summary.pdf
Frank Harrell
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:33:51 +0200
"Prins, N.H. (Klaas)" <klaas.prins@organon.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I need PROC tabulate in SAS quite often to automate the listing of for
> instance parameters estimated or demographics of individuals and so on, but
> would like to use such a thing in S+. I read about and worked with table()
> and crosstabs() a bit, but they don't seem to provide the flexibility that
> SAS offers.
>
> No doubt there is somebody out there that has encountered the same problem
> and knows how to overcome this, and perhaps has even written a function for
> it.
>
> Any thoughts on this would be much appreciated,
> Klaas Prins
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