Sending the output to an HTML file

Since the output from summary is not pretty for a large number of variables, you can also format the output as HTML and send it to a file where you can view the results in a browser. We will illustrate one way to do it via the R2HTML package.

In the following code, all output from HTMLStart to HTMLStop is sent to the file and directory specified:

Install.packages("R2HTML")library(R2HTML)HTMLStart(outdir="C:/PracticalPredictiveAnalytics/Outputs",file="MedicareNYCInput",extension="html",HTMLframe=FALSE")summary(df[,-c(12,13,16,19,20,21)],maxsum=7)HTMLStop()

After the HTMLStop() command is written, the log shows that the output has been written to an HTML file:

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