R Programming By Example

Developing Automatic Presentations

Have you ever found yourself doing the same mechanical task over and over again? It's surprising how many programmers, statisticians, and scientists, in general, do not invest time to automate many of their activities, especially reporting results. Doing so would allow them to focus deeper on their core competencies. Furthermore, this is not unique to individuals; organizations at large still do not automate many of their processes, especially analytical ones. Remember the graph creation automation we performed in Chapter 2, Understanding Votes with Descriptive Statistics, or the regressions automation we performed in Chapter 3, Predicting Votes with Linear Models? In this chapter, we will show you how to ...