On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, baptiste auguie <ba...@exeter.ac.uk> wrote: > A somewhat twisted approach that has not been mentioned is to consider > everything a comment unless it is enclosed in special tags, as done in the > brew package, > > for example, > > >> brew(textConnection( >> "You won't see this R output, but it will run. <% foo <- 'bar' %> >> Now foo is <%=foo%> and today is <%=format(Sys.time(),'%B %d, %Y')%>." >> ) ) > > gives, > >> You won't see this R output, but it will run. >> Now foo is bar and today is February 11, 2009. > > > I'd love to see an editor with a "brew" mode that acts as a notebook: you > type in your text in whatever language without worrying about the syntax (R > syntax, i mean!), and when you want to do a calculation you just enclose it > in such tags that behave like an inverted block comment. > > Just a thought, > > baptiste >
Isn't this almost exactly what ?Sweave does? (and odfWeave). Granted, you have to deal with latex code to get nice output, but latex is a GoodThing (tm). /Gustaf -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel: +46(0)703 051 451 address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE skype:gustaf_rydevik ______________________________________________ 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.
