[ESS] notebook style as an alternative of Sweave?
Na Li
nali at umn.edu
Mon Oct 31 19:33:46 CET 2005
On 30 Oct 2005, Stephen Eglen wrote:
> Na Li writes:
> >
> > When I use Mathematica or Maple, I like the idea of the 'notebook'. There
> > is an emacs mode to emulate that: http://sourceforge.net/projects/notebook
> >
> > I wonder how difficult it would be to implement it for R. (Not sure about
> > how to handle graphics though).
>
> The idea is an interesting one. Graphics indeed might be a problem,
> but the readme clasims it should not be very hard to extend it to
> other programs. Have you tested the notebook code? That might help
> us first to see how well it works on supported languages like Matlab,
> Octave, MuPad.
>
> One slight concern is that it seems the last release was Feb 2003.
I tried it a couple years ago. It was a bit flimsy (but works) back then.
Now when I tried to use it with octave. It stopped working altogether.
There is also a yacas-notebook mode that comes with Yacas (an open-source
computer algebra). But it also doesn't work as promised.
It seems that both suffer fontification syndrome. (I am using a CVS build of
Emacs).
Michael
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