Report window

 

Menu location: File > New Report; a report also opens by itself when an analysis runs with none open, and File > Open opens a saved report.

 

A report is one editable document. Each result of an analysis is an item in it: the heading, the tables and the charts of one run, kept with a record of the run (the workbook, sheet, columns and rows of each input, the settings and the main results), from which Continue in R writes its script and Help finds the method's topic. Type anywhere, select across results and format with the toolbar; text typed after the last result belongs to it. Reports are set in Arial, with the standard colours of StatsDirect's results: blue for confidence intervals, green for P values, red for warnings.

 

The toolbar holds Save, Undo and Redo, Cut, Copy and Paste, Find, the formatting (bold, italic and underline, the alignment, the font size, and Clear formatting for the paragraph at the cursor or the blocks selected), Add text for a section of your own, Help for the result the cursor is in, and the R button, which continues that result, or the latest when the cursor is in none, in the R script window. In a narrow window the formatting moves behind More.

 

Click the first heading of a result to select the whole result, and Shift-click another heading to select a run of results; Ctrl+A selects them all. Delete or Backspace removes what is selected, results among it, and Undo brings it back. Drag a selection to move it; hold Ctrl while you drag to copy it. The right-click menu offers Cut, Copy, Paste, Select result, Select all and Help for the result under the pointer, with Continue in R and Open data and settings in R for a result, and Save chart as SVG and Save chart as PNG on a chart.

 

A chart is a vector picture drawn into the report. Click it to select it: Left, Centre and Right on the toolbar align it, the handle at its free corner resizes it, and the arrow keys adjust its size, in larger steps with Shift. Save chart as SVG saves the chart itself, which drawing programs and browsers open and scale without loss; Save chart as PNG draws it at twice its size on the page, for programs that take only pictures.

 

Copy puts the selection on the clipboard as formatted text with its pictures. Word pastes it with the report's fonts, tables and charts, and Excel takes the tables as cells and the charts as pictures.

 

Save and Save As keep the report as an editable HTML file, which a web browser shows and StatsDirect reopens with its results, their records and their help intact. File > Open, or Open HTML on the File menu, opens one, and a plain text file opens as a new report. Export report on the File menu writes a Word document or a PDF and leaves the HTML document as it is. Print and Print Preview print the report through the browser's print dialog. Reports in the earlier formats, RTF, MHTML and DOCX, are not opened: open them in Word, save them as HTML, and open that file. The status line at the bottom shows Unsaved changes and the file last saved, and closing a changed report asks whether to save it, in the banner at the top of the window.

 

Find (Ctrl+F) opens a find bar under the toolbar and shows the text found selected. Help on the toolbar, F1 and Help on the right-click menu open the topic of the result the cursor is in.