[R] Working comfortably with (X)Emacs + Sweave

[Deepayan Sarkar]

Assuming that you work on GNU/Linux, here's my setup (mostly borrowed from 
Doug Bates):

My .emacs has (apart from the usual ESS and auc-tex stuff):


(defun Rnw-mode ()
  (require 'ess-noweb)
  (noweb-mode)
  (if (fboundp 'R-mode)
      (setq noweb-default-code-mode 'R-mode)))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.Rnw\\'" . Rnw-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.Snw\\'" . Rnw-mode))
(setq reftex-file-extensions
      '(("Snw" "Rnw" "nw" "tex" ".tex" ".ltx") ("bib" ".bib")))
(setq TeX-file-extensions
      '("Snw" "Rnw" "nw" "tex" "sty" "cls" "ltx" "texi" "texinfo"))



I have the following script installed:

deepayan 12:59:03 $ cat /usr/local/bin/Sweave.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "library(tools);Sweave('"$1"')" | /usr/bin/R --vanilla --silent




In the working directory, I have a Makefile similar to:

deepayan 13:01:15 $ cat Makefile

DEFAULT_PDF = filename
DEFAULT_PS = filename

all : $(DEFAULT_PDF:=.pdf) $(DEFAULT_PS:=.ps)

%.tex : %.Rnw
        Sweave.sh $<

%.pdf : %.tex
        texi2dvi --pdf $<

%.dvi : %.tex
        texi2dvi $<

%.ps : %.dvi
        dvips -o -q $<




With all this (customized according to your tastes), just edit the 
filename.Rnw file, and invoke make (I tend to keep a gv open in 'watch file' 
mode).

Hope that helps.

Deepayan

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 12:11 pm, Tamas Papp wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am trying to become more familiar with Sweave at the moment, beacuse
> I am convinced that it will eventually make my life easier. However,
> I have not found anything relevant in the mail archives about the
> following problem.
>
> Both the article in R-News and the Sweave FAQ suggest that Emacs would
> be a great development environment for working with Sweave. So far, it
> doesn't seem to fit that description... Maybe I'm doing something
> wrong. I am going to describe the way I do things, and hope that
> people on this list can suggest something more comfortable.
>
> I edit the file in one buffer and keep one open for the R prompt.
> Every time I need to recompile the whole document (Sweave to, say,
> DVI) I go through the following:
>
> 1. call sweave manually via the R prompt
> 2. open the resulting LaTeX file (I have not found a way to refresh
> this, maybe there's some magical XEmacs keystroke that rereads the
> file from the disk?, so I keep opening/closing it)
> 3. compile the LaTeX file
>
> This is a bit tedious as I like to compile often, because I like to
> see the way my document looks (I know that TeX is WYSIWYM, but I
> prefer to check my formulas instantly).
>
> I would appreciate if people told me how they solve these problems or
> have found any other way to make Xemacs more comfortable. A
> "call sweave and then latex on this file in one go" and "show the DVI
> that was produced from this Rnw file" command would be very
> useful. Emacs init.el files and similar would help a lot, too.
>
> Or maybe I am just trying to use things the wrong way, if so, please
> enlighten me ;-) If this is not how people use Sweave+Emacs, then tell
> me how I should do it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tamas Papp