htmlize {prettyR}

Read an R script and write HTML output

Description

Produces HTML output from an R script.

Usage

htmlize(Rfile,HTMLbase,HTMLdir,title,
 bgcolor="#dddddd",echo=FALSE,do.nav=FALSE,useCSS=NULL,...)

Arguments

Rfile

The R script file from which to read the commands.

HTMLbase

The base name for the HTML files (see Details).

HTMLdir

The directory in which to write the HTML output.

title

The title of the HTML page and the headings for the frames. See Details for including the title in the R script.

bgcolor

The background color for the frames.

echo

Whether to include ("echo") the commands in the listing.

do.nav

Whether to have a navigation window.

useCSS

The name of a CSS stylesheet that will define the appearance of components of the HTML display. If this is not NULL, the CSS file should exist.

...

Additional arguments - currently ignored.

Details

‘⁠htmlize⁠’ allows the user to produce a basic HTML listing from an existing R script. The script must already run correctly with ‘⁠source⁠’. If the first line of the R script is a comment starting with ‘⁠#title~⁠’ and the ‘⁠title⁠’ argument is missing, the rest of the first line will be used as the title of the HTML output.

If there is any graphic output, the script must contain the necessary commands to set up the graphic devices. Note that only TIFF, GIF, BMP, JPEG and PNG graphic images are generally viewable in HTML browsers. The last two are probably the most reliable, but see their help pages for more details. The graphic files will be linked to the HTML listing page so that they should be interleaved with text output and commands.

If ‘⁠do.nav⁠’ is TRUE, three files will be output. The first will be named ‘⁠HTMLbase.html⁠’, where ‘⁠HTMLbase⁠’ is whatever string has been passed as that argument. If that argument is missing, the function will attempt to munge the ‘⁠Rfile⁠’ argument into a base name. This file is an "index" file that sets up the HTML frameset. The second file will be named ‘⁠HTMLbase_nav.html⁠’ and will be dispayed at the left side of the HTML output as a "navigation" list using the commands as names. Commands longer than 20 characters will be truncated. The third file, named ‘⁠HTMLbase_list.html⁠’, contains the program listing. All three files will be written in ‘⁠HTMLdir⁠’. If this is missing, the path of ‘⁠Rfile⁠’ will be used.

If ‘⁠do.nav⁠’ is FALSE, only one file will be written. It will have the same content as the ‘⁠HTMLbase_list.html⁠’ file except without the name tags for navigation and it will be named ‘⁠HTMLbase.html⁠’.

Commands that create or alter connections, such as ‘⁠sink⁠’ are "forbidden", not evaluated and marked as comments in the listing. This prevents such commands from altering the connections necessary to write the HTML files.

If there is a function defined in the R script, ‘⁠htmlize⁠’ will run, but not write any output after the function definition. This has to do with the way that ‘⁠htmlize⁠’ reads command lines from the script file. This is a bug, so watch this space for a solution.

The ability to nominate a CSS stylesheet allows the user to customize the appearance of the HTML output. The most likely use of the ‘⁠useCSS⁠’ argument is for the user to specify whatever aspects of the HTML display are to be different from the default browser values in a stylesheet.

Value

nil

Note

As of version 1.1, both ‘⁠echo⁠’ and ‘⁠do.nav⁠’ are FALSE by default, as these defaults seem to be more popular.

The major differences between ‘⁠htmlize⁠’ and ‘⁠R2html⁠’ are: ‘⁠htmlize⁠’ will run with a minimum of one argument (‘⁠Rfile⁠’) and produces very basic HTML output. It requires the graphic devices to be set up as commands in the R script.

‘⁠R2html⁠’ does not require commands for graphic devices, just comments at the end of any line that requires graphic output to the HTML file. It color codes commands and output and is more careful about the content of lines it writes.

Author(s)

Jim Lemon with improvements by Phillipe Grosjean

Examples

 rcon<-file("test.R","w")
 cat("#title~This is the title\n")
 cat("test.df<-data.frame(a=factor(sample(LETTERS[1:4],100,TRUE)),\n",
  file=rcon)
 cat(" b=sample(1:4,100,TRUE),c=rnorm(100),d=rnorm(100))\n",file=rcon)
 cat("describe(test.df)\n",file=rcon)
 cat("print(freq(test.df$a))\n",file=rcon)
 cat("xtab(a~b,test.df)\n",file=rcon)
 cat("brkdn(c~b,test.df)\n",file=rcon)
 cat("png(\"hista.png\")\nhist(test.df$b)\ndev.off()\n",file=rcon)
 cat("png(\"plotcd.png\")\nplot(test.df$c,test.df$d)\ndev.off()\n",file=rcon)
 close(rcon)
 # call htmlize with minimal arguments
 htmlize("test.R")
 # if you want to see the output, use the following line
 # system(paste(options("browser")," file:",getwd(),"/test.html",sep="",collapse=""))
 # to clean up, use the following line
 # system("rm test.R test.html hista.png plotcd.png")