Feature Request from Doug Martin and Tom Philips

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 1/13/21 11:57 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:50:49AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> Le 13/01/2021 à 00:04, Doug Martin a écrit :
>>> Tom and I are using various R packages for the book Portfolio
>>> Construction and Risk Management that we are writing
>>> using LYX.  A LYX feature that would help us in that effort a lot would
>>> be the ability to import R data framesm and data.table
>>> objects created using the excellent data.table package. Given the
>>> thousands of R packages, and the popularity of the
>>> data.table package, we guess that this import feature for LYX would
>>> benefit a lot of people who use both R and LYX.
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> Did you consider using knitr or Sweave? They allow to insert raw R code in
>> your document. I use that a lot and it is great.
> I also find knitr to be very helpful with tables.
>
> By the way, if you happen to be on Linux, I can write a simple command for you that does the conversion from a data.table to a .lyx file that has a table. I know you're proposing a feature that will benefit all LyX users, but I offer this nonetheless.

Can you write it in Python? Then it could function like other import
scripts.

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