On 22 September 2023 at 07:04, Stephen J. Eglen via ESS-help wrote: | 2. A non-answer to the original question, but I prefer writing Makefiles | to build my documents, rather than using Emacs functionality. Emacs has | a good interface to running make (e.g. through M-x compile). Use | whatever is best for you, but just thought I'd mention it.
Even simpler: I just rely on M-x compile-command (and its shortcut). On the first invocation I edit the out the existing stanza 'make -k' that would get invoked, and make it 'render.r filename.Rmd' to process the file I currently edit. Evince refreshed automagically. This is arguably a little pedestrian, but it takes me away from a land with a language I do not speak (elisp) to one I am rather comfortable in (scripts, shell scripts, littler aka 'r' scripts, Rscript, ...) that do the task. polymode has sometimes been finicky to install / updated, esp a few years ago, and is also (if I read the tea leaves correctly) one of the reasons we have not had an ESS release in five (5) years (which really is rather sad, at least to this long time user) but it has been working fine the last couple of years. I now settled on a mix of elpa-* packages I get from Ubuntu and a number of 'directly from elpa/melpa' packages. By and large it is still a great editing experience. I would guestimate that for the last decade I wrote most output appearing as html (ie course website) and more frequently pdf (slides for talks or lectures, short papers) in it. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help