[ESS] synthax higlighting \Sexpr in .Rnw files

[Douglas Bates]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Emanuel Heitlinger
<emanuelheitlinger at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I also thought about that, but did not manage to find a similar
> expression for e.g.
> \Sexpr{length(exp.tab$coverage[exp.tab$raw.count>0])}
> Maybe that is just poor R, but I suppose it would look much more
> complicated anyways...

\Sexpr{with(subset(exp.tab, raw.count > 0), length(coverage))}

> I am using Sweave for "non-code-centric" reports (with the idea to
> write large parts of my bioinformatics-PhD-thesis in Sweave) with many
> /Sexpr and would prefer not to change/complicate my style of
> subsetting.
>
> Yes, ESS for .Rnw editing is great and a main prerequisite for my
> reproducible-thesis idea...
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Emanuel
>
>
> 2009/11/19, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu>:
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Emanuel Heitlinger
>> <emanuelheitlinger at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> editing the .Rnw files of Sweave/Noweb I have a problem with
>>> \Sexpr{whatever$name}:
>>
>> An equivalent, and less problematic, expression is
>>
>> \Sexpr{whatever[["name"]]}
>>
>> It's a bit more typing but it doesn't have the problem of LaTeX-mode
>> and R-mode fighting over the interpretation of the $ symbol.
>>
>> In some ways the surprising thing about a hybrid like Sweave and ESS
>> support of Sweave is not that sometimes some aspects get confused but
>> that it works at all.
>>
>>> The $ makes Latex-mode use font-latex-math-face (according to M-x
>>> describe-text-properties).
>>>
>>> How to make Latex-mode aware of \Sexpr?
>>> Where to look for the Regexp that control highlighting in Latex-mode?
>>> Or is there another workaround to be defined in Noweb-mode?
>>> I would be happy to learn something about emacs solving this problem!
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>> Emanuel
>>>
>>> here is the output of M-x describe-mode in the tex-region of a .Rnw:
>>>
>>> Enabled minor modes: Auto-Composition Auto-Compression Auto-Encryption
>>> Column-Number Diff-Auto-Refine File-Name-Shadow
>>> Global-Auto-Composition Global-Font-Lock Global-Highlight-Parentheses
>>> Highlight-Parentheses Line-Number Noweb Noweb-Font-Lock Reftex
>>> Shell-Dirtrack Tooltip Transient-Mark
>>>
>>> (Information about these minor modes follows the major mode info.)
>>>
>>> LaTeX mode:
>>> Major mode in AUCTeX for editing LaTeX files.
>>> ...
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Emanuel Heitlinger
>
> University of Karlsruhe (IT)
> Zoological Institute 1 Ecology/Parasitology
> Kornblumenstr. 13
> 76131 Karlsruhe
> Germany
> Telephone +49 (0)721-608 7654
>
> http://www.scienceblogs.de/alles-was-lebt/
>
> or
> University of Edinburgh
> Institute of Evolutionary Biology
> Kings Buildings, Ashworth Laboratories, West Mains Road
> Edinburgh EH9 3JT
> Scotland, UK
> Telephone:+44 (0)131-650 6761
>