Copy the Results of a Summary Function Into Word

[Joseph Moore]

Does anyone know a quick and easy way to copy the results of a Summary Function into Word in a readable format? I don’t remember seeing this in the modules and have spent too much time on this for something that should be a basic copy and paste.

Thanks.

[SamCastillo]

Hi Joseph,

Great catch.  This is a major issue if the exam expects candidates to be able to do this quickly and it takes them longer.  I just sent an email to the SOA’s exam committee to notify them of this.  In earlier versions of Word, it would paste copied text using the same formatting as RStudio but in the latest version of Word it is no longer preserving the column widths.  I will reply here when they respond.  They usually reply within 2-3 business days.

Version Information:

Word version 2104

Rstudio version 1.4.1106

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[SamCastillo]

Please use this link instead of the above one:

[SamCastillo]

Good news – you’ll be able to copy and paste on the Prometric computers because they have an older version of the software.  The syllabus says

The Prometric computers will have the 2016 versions of Microsoft Word and Excel, version 3.6.3 of R, and
version 1.1.463 of RStudio.

As a fix, just take screenshots using WINDOWS + SHFT + S and then copy into Word while you are practicing.  On your real exam, you will be able to copy the text.

[SamCastillo]

Update: still waiting

[Joseph Moore]

Thanks for the information. It’s appreciated.

[SamCastillo]

Still waiting

[Thumper]

Also, I noticed if you paste the results into excel and change the font to Consolas, then copy that and paste it as an image into Word it looks pretty good.

[SamCastillo]

Thanks!

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