[ESS] knitr

[Yihui Xie]

There is no point comparing markdown with org mode, and the answer
will be definitely this: org mode can beat markdown almost everywhere;
they are not even comparable. The point is that markdown was not
designed to provide new features; it was designed to be simple so it
intentionally discarded lots of features and people can learn it
quickly. I have tried a few times to learn org mode, and it is just
too complicated for me.

Regards,
Yihui
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Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
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On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> That's interesting that LaTeX was a barrier for R users.
>
> I've not used Markdown before; it seems neat, but what does it offer
> that org mode doesn't?  I see there is a markdown-mode.el
>
> http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/
>
> that has some support for org mode style cycling of outlines.
>
> Anyone prefer markdown to org mode, and if so why?
>
> (If anyone is interested, on the org mode list recently there was
> discussion about exporting org docs to markdown.)
>
> Stephen