Practical Predictive Analytics

The stargazer package

For an example of a package which can just make life easier, first lets consider the output produced by running a summary function on the regression results, as we did previously. You can run it again if you wish.

summary(lm_output)

The amount of statistical information output by the summary() function can be overwhelming to the initiated. This is not only related to the amount of output, but the formatting. That is why I did not show the entire output in the previous example.

One way to make output easier to look at is to first reduce the amount of output that is presented, and then reformat it so it is easier on the eyes.

To accomplish this, we can utilize a package called stargazer, which will reformat the large ...