Actually, I would much appreciate. I do use org-mode quite a bit for things
like notes. I haven't looked at org-babel though. It does look interesting,
I'll check the links.

If you have a printable introduction with examples (even if unfinished) it
would be certainly helpful, as the thing looks a bit complicated.
One thing that I am a bit worrying about in this approach is that having
*all* input and output recorded this way would be too much -- my R buffers
have a tendency to be pretty long and 95% of the stuff there is junk which I
would not normally want to save, or probably even browse through again... if
there is some way to switch between saving or not saving output, it would be
nice...

Would org/babel work with Stata and/or SAS as well, and does it interoperate
with ESS in any way?

--aj

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> wrote:

> On 08/15/2010 01:22 PM, Charles C. Berry wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Andrei Jirnyi wrote:
>>
>>  What I think would be quite useful to have is a command to select a
>>> block of
>>> text in the transcript buffer, and copy it to the clipboard in such a way
>>> that would (i) remove the command prompts; and (2) comment out all
>>> output.
>>> Also an option to select a region in the main ESS buffer, and copy it
>>> to the
>>> clipboard with the above done automatically, would save quite a bit of
>>> manual work, at least for me -- usually I want to have at least some
>>> of the
>>> output as comments in the code.
>>>
>>>
>> I hear you.
>>
>> I use to work like that.
>>
>
>  More recently I learned about org-babel:
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/index.php
>>
>> thanks to a posting by Eric Iverson pointing to his blog, I think. See
>>
>>
>> http://blogisticreflections.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/introduction-to-using-r-with-org-babel-part-1/
>>
>>
> Yes, that's mine.  I agree that org-mode is probably worth looking into to
> see
> if it works for you.  I'm about 95% done with an extended introduction
> to working with R source code in an org-mode buffer, which will have
> examples of all the things mentioned by Charles.  I will let you know
> when it is finalized.  The introduction is itself written in org-mode,
> so you can follow along to see its capabilities in an interactive
> document.
>
> --Erik
>

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