[Summary] Exporting/generate reports of summary output of regression

[Lim Weiyang <aficionado82@yahoo.com.sg>]

Hi,

 

I posted a question last week on how to export results of summary output of regression. Thanks to Harry Southworth, Chris Barker, Terry Therneau for their responses! Below are the question and responses. In addition, I realized that the scan() function may be useful as well.

 

 

 

Original question

 

Dear S-users,

 

I wonder if there is any way I can export the output generated (or place them in an easily readable form) when performing a regression or regression diagnostics with S functions like summary(), heteroTest, normalTest etc together into say a pdf file/reports since this will make for easier reading as a whole.

 

It will be even better if output from multiple regressions can be exported out into a single document using a function like pdf() as I may need to do many regressions and see the output as a whole.

 

Many thanks for your help!

 

 

From Harry Southworth

 

?createXMLFile

?xml2html

?xml2pdf

 

The XSL stylesheets that come with S-PLUS are a bit ropey, so you might need to write your own. You'd also have to do a bit more work to embed graphs.

 

hth

Harry

 

From Chris Barker

 

Depends in part on what you mean by easier reading. Some people use TeX  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

 

  Chris Barker, Ph.D.
Consulting Statistician

 

From Terry Therneau

 

You question almost exactly describes the functionality of the Sweave and
odfweave packages.  Look them up on google.


    Terry Therneau

 

Alternate method

 

# Write the output to the file given
    sink("C:\\testLM.txt")

    # Call regressions
    test.lm.1 <- lm(Fuel~., data="">    test.lm.1
    summary(test.lm.1)

    test.lm.2 <- lm(Fuel~Mileage+Type, data="">    test.lm.2
    summary(test.lm.2)

    # Return the output back to the program
    sink()

Best Regards,

Weiyang

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