I know you work on Lyx and Sweave now and then and I appreciate the effort, but it is not exactly helping me to get my projects done. I figured if I explain what I'm up to, you might see how I can more effectively use the module setup in LyX. Or you might fix up LyX to do this more easily for me.
With Sweave I'm producing lectures (beamer) and book chapters. I've got several example documents online, such as: http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/stat/Distributions/DistributionOverview/DistributionReview.lyx http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/stat/Distributions/DistributionOverview/DistributionReview.pdf http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Rcourse/regression-tableAndPlot-1/regression-tableAndPlot.lyx http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Rcourse/regression-tableAndPlot-1/regression-tableAndPlot.pdf http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Rcourse/plot-3d/plots-3d.lyx http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Rcourse/plot-3d/plots-3d.pdf Instead of Sweave.sty, I use replacement called Sweavel.sty. It uses the LaTeX listings class instead of Verbatim and gives some nicer looking output. (Sweavel: http://gettinggeneticsdone.blogspot.com/2010/05/using-r-latex-and-sweave-for.html). Sweavel eliminates the especially ugly Verbatim rendering of symbols like tilde, and it has a setting so that two symbols like "<-" are rendered as a LaTex \leftarrow. I've played around with shading on the backgrounds of the listing output, that makes it a bit more fun. If you could include that in your thinking on LyX modules, it would be a bit easier. Here are ways you could help. In Beamer, can you make it possible to create frames without all of the ERT? Each slide requires ERT. \begin{frame}[containsverbatim] \frametitle{} \end{frame} and when I plop one of those into a LyX document with ordinary LyX frames, then have to be VERY CAREFUL to put in a LyX FrameEnd before my ERT frame begins. Sometimes, with statistical output that is lengthy, I have to start frames like so: \begin{frame}[containsverbatim, allowframebreaks] Second, can you make it more convenient to keep a permanent record of R output? Right now, I'm using an R branch in the document. I need to be able to turn that off, but still compile the same document using previous R output. There is some boilerplate code in the document that sets R options for Sweaving, split=T, and so all figures and TeX output files from R get diverted to a folder "plots". This also makes sure I get no ae "help" because it makes documents look like crap. \SweaveOpts{prefix.string=plots/t,split=T,ae=F,height=3,width=5} The R figure chunks start like so <<norm, fig=T, include=F, echo=T>>= The figures are created, but not automatically put into the document. I do that part manually. (either \includegraphics or a Lyx insert graphics works). When the R branch runs, need I copy all R results from the LyX temporary directory back to the document directory.. Most of my Sweave documents don't compile with Sweave as it is shipped with LyX 2.0 (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7552) , so I've fallen back to the old way. My "pjconverter" script compiles and copies R results back. It is invoked by this in .lyx/preferences: \converter "sweave" "latex" "pjconverter.sh $$p$$i $$p $$r" "" \converter "sweave" "pdflatex" "pjconverter.sh $$p$$i $$p $$r" "" ============= pjconverter.sh ================== #!/bin/bash rm -rf "$2/plots" R CMD Sweave $1 if [ -d "$2/plots" ]; then rsync -rav "$2/plots" $3; rsync -av $1 $3; fi sleep 3 exit 0 ################### In my lyx document directory, that creates a new folder "plots" and it also copies the *.Rnw file. Doing it this way is a bit tedious, and to be honest, I don't know there is anything you can do to help me. I think it would be possible to build a module that would handle this part, but I'd be the only user. Well, maybe you could help. In LyX 2, I don't find an R tangle export option. The command line # R CMD Stangle regressionPlots.Rnw works. Can you make a menu for that? Oh, one more thing. Concerning this "pdf does not update" bug: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7571. I see lyx-help talk about pdf updating not working in general, people blame Acrobat. But I'm using Evince as the viewer, and I still have same issue. Are there other ideas about it? pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
