[ESS] Code contribution or suggestion

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi Jim,

Unless I'm missing something, an alternative way to achieve your
templatings stuffs that you've got here is to use yasnippet:
http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/

You can setup templates rather easily for various languages (not just
sweave), and making new templates are pretty easy (no elisp required
:-)

Here's a video of it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Ygeg9miao

The first ~ minute is how to install it, which you can skip if you're
in a hurry and just want to check it out.

Hope that helps,
-steve

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:10 AM,  <Jim_Garrett at bd.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi all,
>   I have just joined this list.  I've been using Emacs and ESS for years but
>   only recently have I begun learning e-lisp and customizing Emacs.  I've also
>   just begun using Sweave consistently.  I manage several other statisticians,
>   and I'm training them on Sweave so that we may use it for all critical
>   reports.  Along the way, I've taken some steps to automate the generation of
>   boilerplate text in standard, common cases.  This has made it much easier to
>   use Sweave, partly by reducing typing and partly to keep me from having to
>   remember options.  This may be a form of dumbing-down but it does help one
>   to get started quickly.
>   I'd like to contribute some e-lisp functions I've written for possible
>   inclusion  in  ESS.   They would be trivial for any experienced e-lisp
>   programmer to write, so I guess I'm actually asking that something along
>   these lines be included to help beginners set up Sweave documents.  (Or is
>   something equivalent already there?)  I'm using ESS 5.10-1, Emacs 23.1.1,
>   all from Ubuntu's repositories.
>   Specifically, here are the things I've automated:
>    1. Generating a skeletal LaTeX document with a standard preamble..
>    2. Creating a skeleton for an Sweave code chunk that creates a figure.
>    3. Similarly, for a table (using xtable).
>    4. Similarly, for a code chunk that returns nothing (i.e., carries out
>       necessary data processing but does not directly add to a report)
>
>   Below are my functions.  Feel free to make whatever modifications you feel
>   necessary, or to achieve these ends by other means.
>   Best regards,
>   Jim Garrett
>   Baltimore, Maryland, USA
>   1. To generate a template for a LaTeX file:
>   (defun create-sweave-file ()
>     "Insert contents of template file into buffer."
>     (interactive nil)
>     (insert-file-contents "~/.sweave-template.rnw"))
>   where .sweave-template.rnw is
>   \documentclass[english]{article}
>   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>   \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
>   \usepackage{babel}
>   \begin{document}
>   \title{}
>   \author{}
>   \date{}
>   \maketitle
>   \end{document}
>   I actually include more in the skeleton because I encourage a particular
>   report format for my group, but I don't want to inflict those on everyone.
>   2. To create a template for a code chunk that creates a figure:
>   (defun insert-sweave-figure (label)
>     "Insert standard figure stuff and R tags."
>     (interactive "MEnter label: ")
>     (insert
>       (concat
>   "\\begin{figure}
>     \\begin{center}
>   <<" label ", fig = T, echo = F>>=
>   @
>     \\end{center}
>     \\caption{}
>     \\label{fig:" label "}
>   \\end{figure}")))
>   (I like to leave 3 blank lines in the code block so that I can edit the
>   middle one, leaving one above and below so it doesn't look crowded.)
>   3. To create a template for a code chunk creating a table, using xtable:
>   (defun insert-sweave-table (label)
>     "Insert code that creates a LaTeX table through the xtable function."
>     (interactive "MEnter label: ")
>     (insert
>      (concat
>       "<<"
>       label
>       ", echo = F, results = tex>>=
>   require(xtable)
>   print(xtable(,
>   caption = \"\",
>   label = \"tab:"
>       label
>       "\"),
>   include.rownames = F)
>   @")))
>   4. To create a template for a code chunk that returns no output:
>   (defun insert-sweave-code (label)
>     "Insert code block that produces no output."
>     (interactive "MEnter label: ")
>     (insert
>      (concat
>       "<<"
>       label
>       ", echo = F, include = F>>=
>   @")))
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Steve Lianoglou
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