Hello Yihui,
I'd be glad to have you try and create the R brush - thanks for offering!

In case you'll come up against walls, I hope there would be people in the
mailing list that would be able to help out.

Cheers,
Tal


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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Yihui Xie <xie@yihui.name> wrote:

> Thanks, Tal. It does not look too difficult to write such a "brush",
> which is actually a JS file. However, I have a concern that R has
> thousands of functions (in base R only), so it might not worth
> including all of them in the brush, which is the way that they
> implemented the highlighting script for Java and VB (they didn't
> define the list of functions because there are too many). Then what we
> need to do is just to insert a few keywords like TRUE/FALSE/for/while
> in the JS. I would like to contribute 10 minutes on this if nobody
> will pick up this job.
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
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> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Tal Galili <tal.galili@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello dear R help members (and also Yihui and Romain),
> > There are currently 28 R bloggers (out of the 117 R-bloggers I know of)
> that
> > are using wordpress.com for publishing their R code (and I suspect this
> > number will increase with time).
> > WordPress.com doesn't support R syntax highlighting, nor can it
> > be embedded from other services (like gist git)
> > After contacting the WordPress.com vip manager, he instructed me that
> they
> > will add R support if a relevant "brush" will be created according to
> this
> > document:
> > http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/manual/brushes/custom.html
> > Since this is what they use on wordpress.com (see:
> > http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/).
> > Creating this brush is beyond my ability at this point, I am writing to
> ask
> > if any of you can/wishes to make this brush for the community.
> > Something I thought might be relevant is the code Yihui Xie recently
> wrote
> > for creating a NPPtoR code brush
> > (http://yihui.name/en/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Npp_R_Auto_Completion.r
> )
> >
> > If such a brush will be created, I'll push to have it included in
> > wordpress.com and to try and inform the current R bloggers using it.
> >
> > Best,
> > Tal
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