[R] Formatting Sweave in R-News

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 8/22/2007 3:20 AM, Gregor Gorjanc wrote:
> Arjun Ravi Narayan <contact <at> arjunnarayan.com> writes:
>> I am editing a document for submission to the R-news newsletter, and
>> in my article my Sweave code inserts a dynamically generated PDF
>> report that my R program generates.
>> 
> 
> Slightly off Arjuns topic is a problem with Schunk, Sinput and Soutput 
> environments. They just use to much inline space. I have tweade this
> problem with sed (see bellow for Makefile content), but wonder if there 
> is a better solution.

You can change the spacing by redefining those environments.  I use this:

% This removes the extra spacing after code and output chunks in Sweave,
% but keeps the spacing around the whole block.

\fvset{listparameters={\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}}}
\renewenvironment{Schunk}{\vspace{\topsep}}{\vspace{\topsep}}


> Thanks, Gregor
> 
> default: Sweave fixTex
> 	texi2pdf --clean wrapper.tex && evince wrapper.pdf
> 
> Sweave: # Sweave myPaper.Rnw
> 	R CMD Sweave myPaper.Rnw
> 
> fixTex: Sweave # Change all S* environments to smallverbatim
> 	@cat myPaper.tex | sed -e '/\\begin{Sinput}/d' \
> 	                       -e '/\\end{Sinput}/d' \
> 	                       -e '/\\begin{Soutput}/d' \
> 	                       -e '/\\end{Soutput}/d' \
> 	                       -e 's/\\begin{Schunk}/\\begin{smallverbatim}/g' \
> 	                       -e 's/\\end{Schunk}/\\end{smallverbatim}/g' \
> 	> myPaper2.tex
> 	@mv -f myPaper2.tex myPaper.tex
> 
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