On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com> wrote:

>  >> Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael@gene.com>
>   >> on Wed, 6 Jun 2012 13:27:52 -0700 wrote:
>
>  > I had an idea that I explained in a separate thread re: evaluating
>  > individual blocks. Obviously, that is going to depend on the backend
>  > supporting single block evaluation, but it would be a neat feature to
> have.
>
> Besides evaluating chunks. Would be also good to have a partial
> evaluation/knitting of the file.  I often want to preview one beamer
> frame or a section without the weaving/knitting the whole file.
>
> I guess this is an ESS task and not knitr's.
>
>
It's probably both. It would be nice to have these types of features just
when using knitr directly, and then ESS would provide an interface. For
example, knitr could accept a character vector of chunk names to process.
It would be nice to have a renderer that would not write to a file but
rather return as a character vector what it would have written.



> Vitalie.
>

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