My suggestion is always ERT for R code chunks, because it is clean and easier to play with program code.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <[email protected]> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Mark Dalphin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to both Scott Kostyshak and Yihui Xie (I appreciate Yihui not > reminding me that he has already suggested I switch to knitr). I mis-wrote > when I said "scrap" in my text; it is indeed the "chunk" into which I paste > my text from Emacs. > > When I use "ctrl-shift-v" into a chunk that I have pre-filled with > "<<echo=FALSE,fig=TRUE>>=\n" (where "\n" means I am on the next line, not > the literal characters), the first line adds correctly, then there is a > blank line and change of paragraph type into "Standard", with the remaining > lines in that standard paragraph. > > If I change my work order and paste-special into a "Standard" paragraph, it > looks alright, but then selection of those lines and conversion to a "Chunk" > paragraph yields a similar output: one good, chunk line, a blank line plus > several lines in the following "Standard" paragraph. > > Trying Yihui's ERT format seemed to paste correctly, however, I am left > wondering then "in what kind of paragraph" should the ERT exist. Just as a > stand-alone "Standard" paragraph? I can live with that if it leads to clean > processing of my report. Does anyone have any comments on possible > side-effects of using the ERT to contain the Sweave material? > > Cheers, > Mark
