[ESS] Polymode
David Scott
d.scott at auckland.ac.nz
Thu Apr 2 13:34:04 CEST 2015
On Windows I have installed Emacs 24.4 and ESS 14.09 using Vince
Goulet's distribution. I am having a lot of trouble with processing .Rnw
and .Rmd files using knitr. I am aware of the M-n w and M-n e commands
(and the related M-n W and M-n E commands). I am able to weave
successfully, but exporting (which I understand should use pdfLaTeX for
a .Rnw file) just seems to hang showing no output and I have no idea
what is going on. This possibly happens when I have a problem in my file
(such as a beamer slide which includes verbatim but is not specified as
fragile), but I really don't know. For .Rmd files I resorted to a
creating a .bat file using render from the rmarkdown package, which was
reasonably successful, but was not the best workflow in my view. I would
really like to be able to just process .Rnw files as previously with M-n
s followed by M-n P, but I am far from that at present.
Another problem I have at the moment is with M-n w adding '[weaved]' to
the name of the file. First of all that causes a proliferation of files,
secondly clicking on the icon to view any resulting pdf causes a file
not found error because the file name looked for doesn't have '[weaved]'
added to it.
(To be totally unreasonable, the choice of the word 'weaved' to be added
to the file name grates on me like finger nails on a blackboard. The
appropriate adjective for an object which has been created by weaving is
'woven'.)
So. Can anyone explain to me how to process a .Rnw file and view the
resulting pdf? Also, how to stop the addition of [weaved] to the file name?
Failing that, can anyone explain how to modify auto-mode-alist so that
instead of polymode, it invokes the old noweb where there is a menu and
M-n s and M-n P work as before, and I can tangle a file? I am afraid
that I just don't get lisp programming, so words of one syllable how to
do that would be good.
Finally, despite what appears above, let me say that I am grateful to
Vitalie and all the other ESS developers, and in no way wish to
disparage their efforts. ESS with AUCTeX is just *the* best environment
for R and TeX and is hugely important to me. Thanks to Vince also for
his distribution.
David Scott
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David Scott Department of Statistics
The University of Auckland, PB 92019
Auckland 1142, NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055
Email: d.scott at auckland.ac.nz, Fax: +64 9 373 7018
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