[ESS-bugs] Was: New ESS is badly messed up

[Martin Maechler]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>   >> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>   >> on Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:04:32 +0100 wrote:
>
>   >>
>   >> I have added this one to the list of known bugs. Will try to look into
>   >> it some day. But as you also pointed, it is not critical. I personally
>   >> was not aware of this feature, and I bet not many users are.
>
>   > Which feature do you mean?
>
>   > Inclusion of previously defined chunks  becomes quite common, as soon
>   > as you use Sweave in a slightly ambitious way (and try to be careful
>   > to abhorr from  "cut 'n' paste").
>   > Hence, I'm using it quite frequently.  In almost all of my recent
>   > non-small *.Rnw's
>
> Well, I use R functions to do exactly the same thing ;)

Sometimes, notably in the context of teaching R or    showing R / "my
new R pkg" code,
this is not feasible for didactical reasons:
You don't want to show that you put two lines of R code in a function,
and then call that function
 just to not cut and paste them.

Martin
>
>     Vitalie
>