You could check out the brew package: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-packages/2007/000327.html
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:37 AM, baptiste Auguié <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DeaR list, > > Has anyone tried to mix the Sweave paradigm with the Markdown[*] (and co.) > syntax? Would this be hard to implement? My tiny understanding of Sweave is > that one can define new drivers for the text part, while some functions that > deal with the R code would not require any modification. Here's the reason > I'm interested in Mardown for a driver. > > I've been orbiting around Sweave for several weeks, and while I understand > the great value of this "literate programming", I'm a bit put off by the > technical aspect. I'm a LateX user, and a R user (you'd have guessed, albeit > fairly novice), so the problem is not to get it working (i got some writings > done with Sweave), but more of getting an efficient workflow. I find the > LaTeX commands overly intruding in the middle of my R source code, plus the > relatively slow compilation of latex makes it quite impractical for quick > studies ( I once spent 20 minutes trying to get the graph to be at a > sensible scale on the page). > > As an alternative, I'm resorting to having a folder per study (I'm > physicist, doing data analysis for optical spectroscopy), with one R file > per analysis and a text file to keep track of the experimental conditions. > When the data is really important / interesting, I've also tried to write a > package: great for storing the data, functions and commands in a consistent > manner (this works fine, but it cannot be a solution for quick trial > experiments. Also, the figures cannot be included in the html doc as far as > I know.) > > I was considering some alternatives to Sweave, namely R2HTML and odfWeave, > but in the former the source syntax is no less disturbing than LaTeX > (although the zero compilation time is a plus), while for the latter I do > not have a decent compatible editor (on a Mac, I tried Openoffice and > Abiword but the fonts look like my handwriting for some obscure reason). > Maybe I'll give it another shot at some stage, I just usually prefer plain > text files. > > Any input welcome, > > Baptiste > > [*]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown > > _____________________________ > > Baptiste Auguié > > Physics Department > University of Exeter > Stocker Road, > Exeter, Devon, > EX4 4QL, UK > > Phone: +44 1392 264187 > > http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag > http://projects.ex.ac.uk/atto > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
