Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:09:47 +0100
From: January Weiner
To: r-devel
Subject: [Rd] Changing style for the Sweave vignettes
As a user, I am always annoyed beyond measure that Sweave vignettes
precede the code by a command line prompt. It makes running examples
by simple copying of the
As someone who was also annoyed by command line prompts a couple of
years ago, I wrote knitr and removed prompts as well as the
continuation characters (+) by default (FAQ5:
https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/master/FAQ.md).
BTW, I do not always trust copying text from PDF. Perhaps it is fine
for
Dear Paul and Martin,
thanks for the useful tips. I'll start with Paul's suggestion (getting
rid of these '+'-es will already be a boon!), and move from my old
Sweave vignettes when possible.
Thank you!
j.
On 13 November 2014 15:35, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> You might also consider starting your vi
You might also consider starting your vignettes with
\begin{Scode}{echo=FALSE,results=hide}
options(continue=" ")
\end{Scode}
Then you get one prompt but it is still easy to cut and paste. This has
been in many of my packages for many years, so I think it would be fair
to assume it is accept
On 11/13/2014 03:09 AM, January Weiner wrote:
As a user, I am always annoyed beyond measure that Sweave vignettes
precede the code by a command line prompt. It makes running examples
by simple copying of the commands from the vignette to the console a
pain. I know the idea is that it is clear wha
Thank you, Søren and Brian for your answers.
Whether this is the right list -- well, I think it is, since I am
developing a package and would like to create a vignette which is
useful and convenient for my users. I know how to extract the vignette
code. However, most of my users don't. Or if they
On 11/13/2014 05:09 AM, January Weiner wrote:
As a user, I am always annoyed beyond measure that Sweave vignettes
precede the code by a command line prompt. It makes running examples
by simple copying of the commands from the vignette to the console a
pain. I know the idea is that it is clear wha
To: r-devel
|Subject: [Rd] Changing style for the Sweave vignettes
|
|As a user, I am always annoyed beyond measure that Sweave vignettes
|precede the code by a command line prompt. It makes running examples by
|simple copying of the commands from the vignette to the console a pain. I
|know the idea
As a user, I am always annoyed beyond measure that Sweave vignettes
precede the code by a command line prompt. It makes running examples
by simple copying of the commands from the vignette to the console a
pain. I know the idea is that it is clear what is the command, and
what is the output, but I'
