Hi Todd, I guess I don't see the difference between that strategy and using make to look after scripts, raw data, Sweave files, and (if necessary) images. I find that I can get pretty fine-grained control over what parts of a project need to be rerun by breaking the analysis into chapters. I suppose it depends on whether one takes a script-centric or an object-centric view of a data analysis project. A script-centric view is nicer for version control. I think that make is centric-neutral :).
Cheers, Andrew On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:23:54PM -0700, Taylor, Z Todd wrote: > On Monday, April 09, 2007 3:23 PM, someone named Wilfred wrote: > > > So what's the big deal about S using files instead of memory > > like R. I don't get the point. Isn't there enough swap space > > for S? (Who cares anyway: it works, isn't it?) Or are there > > any problems with S and large datasets? I don't get it. You > > use them, Greg. So you might discuss that issue. > > S's one-to-one correspondence between S objects and filesystem > objects is the single remaining reason I haven't completely > converted over to R. With S I can manage my objects via > makefiles. Corrections to raw data or changes to analysis > scripts get applied to all objects in the project (and there > are often thousands of them) by simply typing 'make'. That > includes everything right down to the graphics that will go > in the report. > > How do people live without that? > > --Todd > -- > Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word? > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
