HTMLInitFile: Begins / Ends a new HTML report output
In R2HTML: HTML exportation for R objects

Description Usage Arguments Value Note Author(s) See Also Examples

Those two functions handle the beginning and the ending of a HTML report, by writing the HTML <body><head><title></title></head>...</body> tags and their options. When working manually, the user may need to use it's own functions or to explicitly write to a file using cat("", file=).

HTMLInitFile(outdir = tempdir(), filename="index", extension="html",
  HTMLframe=FALSE, BackGroundColor = "FFFFFF", BackGroundImg = "",
  Title = "R output", CSSFile="R2HTML.css", useLaTeX=TRUE, useGrid=TRUE)

HTMLEndFile(file = get(".HTML.file"))

`outdir`	directory to store the output
`filename`	target HTML report filename
`extension`	target HTML report extension (htm, html,...)
`HTMLframe`	should the output be handled by frames [boolean]
`BackGroundColor`	option bgcolor for HTML tag <body>
`BackGroundImg`	option background for HTML tag <body>
`Title`	string to pass to HTML <title> tag
`CSSFile`	path and name of a CSS file to use
`useLaTeX`	boolean - add required references to javascript AsciiMathML in order to use `as.latex`
`useGrid`	boolean - add required references to javascript grid in order to use R2HTML grid fonctions
`file`	target HTML file to end

physical path of the main HTML file that will serve for the report.

For a discussion about .HTML.file default value for file argument, refer to HTMLStart

Eric Lecoutre

HTML, as.latex, HTMLgrid

	# Store in target the name of a output file
	dir.create(file.path(tempdir(),"R2HTML"))
	target <- HTMLInitFile(file.path(tempdir(),"R2HTML"),"index", BackGroundColor="#BBBBEE")
	# Use target to write a dataframe
	HTML(as.title("Here is the data frame"),file=target)
	HTML("<br>Don't forget to use the CSS file in order to benefit from fixed size police",file=target)
	tmp <- as.data.frame(matrix(rnorm(100),ncol=10))
	HTML(tmp,file=target)
	HTMLEndFile()