[R] Editors which have strong/solid support for SWeave?

A.J. Rossini blindglobe at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 16:05:20 CEST 2006


On 7/5/06, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz at cnio.es> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:14, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I have a few colleagues who like the idea of Sweave, but have failed
> > to become enlightened monks of the One True Editor
> > (http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/)
> >
> > Are there any other Microsoft-centric editors or IDEs which have solid
> > support for writing SWeave documents (dual R / LaTeX enhancements
> > similar to ESS's support)?  Has anyone tried the folding editors which
> > support Noweb?
>
>
> Dear Tony,
>
>
> I often use Leo (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html) which is
> like a literate editor on steroids (folding + outlining, noweb and cweb
> support, and a _lot_ more), and I use it for all complex/long Rnw documents,
> including interacting with R ...
>
> ...but I "cheat", because the editing itself (of the "nodes" or folds),
> including submitting code to R from the R chunks, I do in emacs (with ESS).
>
> Leo is available for Linux, Win, Mac and is written in Python.
>

I've used Leo a few years ago, and liked it (but not enough to
convert).  I'll have to try it again.  Thanks!


best,
-tony

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