[R] Docbook equivalent of Sweave

[Greg Snow]

The odfWeave package does sweave using OpenOffice files instead of LaTeX files.  The .odt files are XML based I believe.  If you still want to expand to docbook, looking at the code of odfWeave should at least get you started.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Sean Davis
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 1:19 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Docbook equivalent of Sweave
>
> I have been looking a bit at docbook as an alternative to latex.
> However, Sweave is a very nice way to deal with documents mixing R
> code, figures, and text as well as markup.  I saw a couple of
> references in the email archives that people have been experimenting
> with combinations of tools (including Sxslt).  Is anyone willing to
> share their thoughts and practices in basically replacing the
> functionality of Sweave and Latex with an xml-based solution like
> docbook?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
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