Eric Schulte <eric.schu...@gmx.com> writes:

> Stephen Eglen <s.j.eg...@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
>>> I recognized your name, Stephen, as the long-time maintainer of the "Emacs
>>> Lisp List"--thanks for that too.  
>>> Are you envisioning a repository beyond "Emacs Lisp List" for OrgMode
>>> implementations and/or Babel examples.
>>
>> I am interested in maintaining a collection of nice org-babel-R
>> examples, given my interest in R and Emacs; I made a small start last
>> year for my tutorial notes on ESS for the useR meeting, but I'd like to
>> update that.  The key problem I found with learning org-babel was worked
>> examples, given that the syntax was changing rapidly.  I hope that has
>> now stabilised, and I should followup with Eric about this.
>>
>
> The syntax is now stabilized (we wanted to get this sorted before the
> final Emacs24 merge).  That which is currently described in the manual
> is and should remain the proper Org-mode code block syntax.
>
> For many small examples, please see [1] which I (unfortunately) haven't
> been adding to recently, but I will try to once again start using for
> all of my small generally-mailing-list-inspired Babel one-offs.
>
>>
>> (I also hope to kill off the Emacs Lisp List once the ELPA has taken
>> off.)
>>
>>> Also, I very much agree that a "near exact replica" of the http://
>>> rsquared.stat.uni-muenchen.de/index.rhtml for OrgMode would be great.
>> Yes!  Any takers?!?
>>
>
> From looking at the fairly terse web site for R^2 it is not clear to me
> exactly what the system includes (I'm sure I'm missing something
> obvious).  It seems to be the addition of a packaging system over-top of
> R source files.  What would a potential Org-mode based system provide
> which is not already possible with Org-mode text files, Org-mode
> publishing and a version control repository.

One thing that caught my eye was the facility that compared results
across operating systems.

Tom

>
> Perhaps the benefit would simply be a system which eases the integration
> of Org, publishing, version control, and possibly automatic Makefile
> creation with tasks like "publish", "clean" etc...
>
> Best,
>
>>
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/roxygen/index.html
>>
>> Note that ESS has limited support for editing roxygen tags.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>
>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  http://eschulte.me/org-scraps/

-- 
Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com

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