[ESS] ess-developers/users using sweave/auctex

[Patrick Drechsler]

Hi David,

sorry for the late response.

David Whiting wrote on 30 Mar 2005 11:38:12 MET:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 01:54:57AM +0200, Patrick Drechsler wrote:
>> 
>> just curious: are there people using the combo ESS/Sweave with
>> AUCTeX effectively and/or on a more day to day basis?
>
> Yes, all the time

[mentioning nice shortcuts]

Thanks for the feedback, David. I've been using your shortcuts
for about half a year now ;-) Catching error messages is a thing
of finding the correct buffer occassionaly though.

> I should warn you that I am only an occasional elisper and
> probably know just about enough to do some damage, but they
> seem to work for me.

;-) Nevertheless it is more accustomed to me than using
Makefiles.


> The modifications I have since that post made are mostly to do
> with how I set things up these days with sub-directories for
> different parts of my Sweave documents or the files they
> produce (instead of having everything in one directory).

Not knowing if I speak for the rest of this list: I'd be
interested in these changes.

> The other new thing I have added is a simple function to insert
> \Sexpr{} at point.
>
>
> (defun ess-insert-Sexpr ()
>   "Insert Sexpr{} into the buffer at point."
>   (interactive)
>   (insert "\\Sexpr{}")
>   (backward-char)
> )
>
> (define-key noweb-minor-mode-map "\M-nx" 'ess-insert-Sexpr)

Nice!

>> Or do most the readers here use Makefiles/R-scripts to produce
>> plots directly from R?
>
> Makefiles occasionally. I never seem to create R scripts
> anymore. As soon as I start to add comments it usually seems to
> make sense to make it a Sweave document.

Since I have gotten used to using "prototyping" environments such
as MATLAB/LabVIEW, R, and LaTeX (feel free to comment on my
definition of "prototyping" -- I'm not a computer scientist) I
can understand this.

Your shortcuts enable me to use Sweave in a more AUCTeX-style
way.


I haven't been able to find a "noweb" mailing list or NG. Can
somebody give me a pointer/link?

Cheers

Patrick
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