[R] Difference between snw and rnw files

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 6/2/2008 7:25 AM, Delphine Fontaine wrote:
> Dear R-users,
> 
> I use Sweave for quite a long time but I still wonder what is the difference
> between snw and rnw files. Why these two file extensions ? I searched the
> web without success.
> Thanks for your answers.

There is no difference from the point of view of Sweave (which doesn't 
care about filenames), but users may use those names to distinguish 
files meant for R from those meant for S-PLUS.  Or they may just be in 
the habit of calling everything S code, since the language is S, and 
prefer Snw.

Duncan Murdoch