[R] Support for R in highlight.js

Ivan Sagalaev maniac at softwaremaniacs.org
Thu Apr 12 23:19:04 CEST 2012


highlight.js generally allows for more sophisticated highlighting. I 
believe this might be the reason why people at Kaggle are looking for 
it. Thanks for the pointer anyway!

On 04/12/2012 07:25 AM, Yihui Xie wrote:
> There are numerous JS libraries for syntax highlighting. I have never
> tried highlight.js yet, but I wrote something for SyntaxHighlighter
> which might be easily translated to highlight.js:
> http://yihui.name/en/2010/09/syntaxhighlighter-brush-for-the-r-language/
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Ivan Sagalaev
> <maniac at softwaremaniacs.org>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm the maintainer of a syntax highlighting tool highlight.js[1]. Recently
>> the Kaggle project has announced they wanted to sponsor the development of
>> the R highlighting definition for it[2]. I wanted to drop a line about it
>> here since I suspect this list has much more R programmers on it than our
>> small discussion group :-).
>>
>> So if you're interested and don't mind touching a little bit of JavaScript —
>> please reply to the announcement or personally to Adam Kennedy
>> <adam.kennedy at kaggle.com>  who's behind it from the Kaggle side.
>>
>> [1]: http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/
>> [2]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/highlightjs/-ogtOaK-TQY/discussion
>>
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