I didn't experience this new package that much, I mostly use org-mode for
litteral programming and reproducible research.

Do you have any examples to demonstrate the new features that you
> mention in the Overview?  To my untrained eye, I couldn't discriminate
> much difference to what Kieran's page documents.
>

What I meant by easier is that with this R package you can go from directly
from an Rmd file to various format using Pandoc.
For R user this is great because you have a control on all pandoc
parameters through this package in a nice interface, therefore no need for
an extra step of creating a Makefile to move from markdown (output of
knitr) to a pdf or a html.

Just to name few features, you can pass an html template and by default it
uses pandoc-citeproc to manage bib files.

library(rmarkdown) ### devtools::install_github("rstudio/rmarkdown")
render("article-knitr.Rmd", html_document(template =
"templates/html.template"))

There are a lot of different options and feels like having pandoc within R.


And presumably, although this is part of rstudio, is most of the
> functionality available also via ESS?
>

So far I don't think there's an official support (keep it mind that
rmarkdown is not even on CRAN yet), but there's no reason why we can't
package it into ESS since it's just an R package.
I think it could play nicely with Vitalie
Polymode<https://github.com/vitoshka/polymode>as a backend to process
files.





On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>wrote:

> > Thanks for sharing, this is a really nice post.
> > I just want to add that the forthcoming
> > rmarkdown<https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown>(pandoc based) will
> > bring a lot of new features to make the process
> > described in the post easier.
>
> Thank you very much, very good to see!
>
> Do you have any examples to demonstrate the new features that you
> mention in the Overview?  To my untrained eye, I couldn't discriminate
> much difference to what Kieran's page documents.
>
> is it that your package hides some of the details that Kieran had
> included in the Makefile?
>
> And presumably, although this is part of rstudio, is most of the
> functionality available also via ESS?
>
> Best wishes,
> Stephen
>
>


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