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
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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
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