[Rd] Sweave driver extension

[Yihui Xie]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu> wrote:
> Three thinngs -
>   My original questions to R-help was "who do I talk to".  That was
> answered by Brian R, and the discussion of how to change Sweave moved
> offline.  FYI, I have a recode in hand that allows arbitrary reordering
> of chunks; but changes to code used by hundreds need to be approached
> cautiously.  Like the witch says in Wizard of Oz: "... But that's not
> what's worrying me, it's how to do it.  These things must be done
> delicately, or you hurt the spell."
>
>   A few emails have made me aware of others who use noweb.  Most of
> them, as I have, use the original Unix utility.  But since survival is
> so interwoven with R I am trying to impliment that functionality
> entirely in R to make the code self contained.  Just working out how to
> best do so.
>
>  Yihui: with respect to the note below, I don't see why you want to add
> new syntax.  Why add "run_chunk(a)" when it is a synonym for <<a>>?

A short answer is it is easy to implement, because run_chunk() uses
eval() which naturally supports recursion (you can eval(parse(text =
"eval(parse(text = ...))"))).

I think I will add <<>> in the next few days too. There have been
quite a few features like this one that I did not plan to do because I
do not use them at all, but I added them to knitr one by one anyway
when I saw convincing reasons (function overhead problems in this
case). So I really appreciate these discussions.

I feel r-devel is not a good place for me to chime in, so I will turn
the discussion irrelevant to r-devel offline later.

>
> Terry T.
>
>


Regards,
Yihui
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