[R-wiki] [Fwd: Sweave to wiki script]

[Philippe Grosjean]

OK, that makes a lot of sense.

PhG

Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "PhGr" == Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org>
>>>>>>     on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:45:41 +0200 writes:
> 
>     PhGr> Hi Ben,
>     PhGr> This looks great (note that I wanted to test it first before 
>     PhGr> answering... still haven't found time for that)! However, I think that 
>     PhGr> it is easier to work on Wiki page and eventually convert it to 
>     PhGr> LaTeX/Sweave than in the other direction. So, do you mean you plan to 
>     PhGr> write Wiki pages in LaTeX???
> 
> [Excuse Ben, for answering in European time (while you're sleeping)]
> 
> No! Probably not at all.
> 
> I see the very big potential use quite differently:
> 
> Many of us are in academics where we are supposed to produce
> presentations and "papers".  The modern ones among us (:-) ;-))
> may use Sweave to do both of this.
> 
> Hence: If Ben's tool "works", we now can pretty quickly put our
> presentations, e.g., from  UseR!2007, into the R-wicki without
> much extra work.
> 
> This seems a tremendously nice potential!
> But then, as Philippe, I haven't found time yet to try it out...
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
>