[ESS] /bin/bash markdown : command not found

[Ista Zahn]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Briefly, what are the pieces of the toolchain going from Rmd -> html output?
>
> AFAIK you need .Rmd --> .md --> .html. You can do both conversions
> using either the R package knitr (see ?knit and ?pandoc) or the R
> package rmarkdown (see ?render), but I assume you want to call these
> conveniently from emacs (see below)
>
>>
>> I'm interested to see what Emacs 24.4 does with markdown. So far as I can
>> find, there's no pre-packaged Emacs 24.4 for Ubuntu 14.10, so I've compiled
>> packages. I have ess working.  The emacs-goodies-el package includes a copy
>> of markdown mode, version 2.0 (2013-03-24).
>>
>> Now I want to know what is needed to make markdown mode work properly.Is
>> polymode, which I don't yet have installed, going to replace markdown mode?
>
> No, polymode (as it's name suggests) is for using multiple modes in a
> single buffer (or something like that; my description might not be
> technically accurate, but the idea is that some portions of a buffer
> might be markdown-mode, others might be ESS-mode). You will still need
> markdown-mode, but polymode will make it easier to work with markdown
> documents with embedded (R) code.
>
>>
>> Right now, I can open an Rmd file in Emacs, M-x markdown-mode, the correct
>> menus appear. However when I try to compile something, I get the minibuffer
>> error
>> /bin/bash: markdown: command not found.
>
> That sounds like a pretty clear hint that you should install markdown.
> But that will only give you .md --> .html, you will still need a way
> to convert .Rmd --> .md. One way or another most people are using
> pandoc for this, so you should probably install that too (if you don't
> have it installed already).

Woops, I meant that most people are using pandoc for .md --> .html,
not for .Rmd --> .md; for that you need the R packages knitr or
rmarkdown (or others?).

Best,
Ista

>
> Polymode can help you do both conversions conveniently from emacs
> (requires pandoc AFAIK); polymode-export does .Rmd --> .md --> .html,
> while polymode-weave does only .Rmd --> .md (see
> https://github.com/vspinu/polymode#basic-usage for details).
>
> HTH,
> Ista
>
>>
>> I created a markdown script that expects a command line argument.
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> R -e "library(markdown); render(\"$1\")"
>>
>> But Emacs-> markdown-mode does not supply the file name argument, so I fail.
>>
>> PJ
>>
>>
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