Create an R statistical report in HTML with pander [closed]

Question

I'm programming an statistical report in HTML with R and Sweave, but I can't improve the table format with xtable, so seeing the pander package by daroczig, I think that is enough to satisfy my purposes.

The problem is when I run Pandoc.brew function on a brew file nothing happens, the R console remains as doing something but there is not output and I must close the R session to interrupt the process. This happens with pander example files.

I'm running R 2.15.0 and Pandoc 1.5.1.1-5 on Debian 6.0.5 squeeze. I've installed pander package as is shown in pander's website.

Any help will be fully appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Cymograph

@daroczig frequents these parts from time to time, so maybe he'll have some ideas. – Chadwell

IMHO the pretty outdated (2 years old) Pandoc could result this very strange situation. Could you please verify this by running pandoc (outside of R) on the brewed markdown file? E.g. running pandoc minimal.md -o test.html in the dir where you downloaded the above file. If that would work OK, there might be some issues while adding custom HTML/CSS/JS stuff in my pandoc call. I am just installing Debian squeeze to test it, but the best thing to do for you right now would be to install an up-to-date version of pandoc somehow :( – Rusch

I've just installed a bare Debian Squeeze with R 2.15.0 from CRAN and Pandoc 1.5.1.1-5 from the Debian repos and run Rscript -e "library(pander);Pandoc.brew('minimal.brew', output = 'test', convert='html')" in bash without any issues. Could you please run Pandoc.brew with open=FALSE to see if the problem occurs while opening the file? – Rusch

I successfully and easily used the 'hwriter' package some years ago for creating reports on html pages. – Neurosurgery

I suspect this issue was resolved with a commit about a month ago. Could you please affirm this? – Rusch