[R] opinions please: text editors and reporting/Sweave?
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu May 31 10:10:44 CEST 2007
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Henric Nilsson wrote:
> Den To, 2007-05-31, 09:01 skrev Martin Maechler:
>
>>>>>>> "Jared" == Jared O'Connell <jared.oconnell at csiro.au>
>>>>>>> on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:28:11 +0800 writes:
>>
>> Jared> Winshell (http://www.winshell.de/) is another (free) option if
>> you want a
>> Jared> Windows editor with good MikTEX integration.
>>
>> Looks like it.
>> Note however that the above "free" is only as in "free beer" not
>> as in "free speech".
>> In other words, Winshell is *not* 'Free Software' / 'Software
>> Libre' nor is it Open Source Software.
>
> Not that I use it myself (since I'm convinced that Emacs is the way to
> go), but TeXnicCenter (http://www.texniccenter.org/) is probably a good
> GPL'd alternative to WinShell.
Our Windows-only users prefer both WinEdt and TeXnicCenter to WinShell.
A few get on with Emacs/AucTeX, but not many.
>> Tinn-R, as R itself, *is* "Free Software"
>> (and Emacs and ESS and (La)TeX are too).
>>
>> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>>
>> Jared> On 5/31/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Tim Howard wrote:
>> >>> dear all -
>> >>>
>> >>> I currently use Tinn-R as my text editor to work with code that I
>> submit
>> >> to R, with some output dumped to text files, some images dumped to
>> pdf.
>> >> (system: Windows 2K and XP, R 2.4.1 and R 2.5). We are using R for
>> >> overnight runs to create large output data files for GIS, but then
>> I need
>> >> simple output reports for analysis results for each separate data
>> set. Thus,
>> >> I create many reports of the same style, but just based on
>> different input
>> >> data.
>> >>>
>> >>> I am recognizing that I need a better reporting system, so that I
>> can
>> >> create clean reports for each separate R run. This obviously means
>> using
>> >> Sweave and some implementation of LaTex, both of which are new to
>> me. I've
>> >> installed MikTex and successfully completed a demo or two for
>> creating pdfs
>> >> from raw LaTeX.
>> >>>
>> >>> It appears that if I want to ease my entry into the world of
>> LaTeX, I
>> >> might need to switch editors to something like Emacs (I read
>> somewhere that
>> >> Emacs helps with the TeX markup?). After quite a while wallowing at
>> the
>> >> Emacs site, I am finding that ESS is well integrated with R and
>> might be the
>> >> way to go. Aaaagh... I'm in way over my head!
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> If you are used to Windows, you might find the shareware editors
>> WinEdt
>> >> or Textpad more familiar. WinEdt has advantages of lots of LaTeX
>> >> integration.
>> >>
>> >> Duncan Murdoch
>> >>> My questions:
>> >>>
>> >>> What, in your opinion, is the simplest way to integrate text and
>> >> graphics reports into a single report such as a pdf file.
>> >>>
>> >>> If the answer to this is LaTeX and Sweave, is it difficult to use
>> a text
>> >> editor such as Tinn-R or would you strongly recommend I leave
>> behind Tinn
>> >> and move over to an editor that has more LaTeX help?
>> >>>
>> >>> In reading over Friedrich Leisch's "Sweave User Manual" (v 1.6.0)
>> I am
>> >> beginning to think I can do everything I need with my simple
>> editor. Before
>> >> spending many hours going down that path, I thought it prudent to
>> ask the R
>> >> community.
>> >>>
>> >>> It is likely I am misunderstanding some of the process here and
>> any
>> >> clarifications are welcome.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you in advance for any thoughts.
>> >>> Tim Howard
>> >>>
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>> >>>
>> >>
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>>
>> Jared> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> Jared> ______________________________________________
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>> Jared> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible
>> code.
>>
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