[ESS] Is this useful for discriminating Sweave vs knitr docs?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen using damtp.cam.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Mon, 6 Apr 2015 22:50:19 +0100 writes:

    > Rstudio use a simple comment like:
    > % !Rnw weave = knitr

    > to ensure that Rstudio knows the current .Rnw file should be processed
    > with knitr (rather than Sweave).  Would that be useful for ESS to adopt?

On one hand, ESS is very much customizable nicely using Emacs'
custom(ize) interfaces, we already have a user customizable
variable for this:  ess-swv-processor 

.. The emacs way to set this for specific files would of course
be to use  "file variables" 
with the well known short syntax
     -*- mode: MODENAME; VAR: VALUE; ... -*-

(and a longer multi-line syntax, starting with a line 
 .. Local Variables: ..
 and ending with 
 .. End: ..)

OTOH, Rstudio very much less configurable and so they need to
such comment based configuration.

Of course, ideally they would use the  -*- .... syntax and our
variable names, so Emacs+ESS would automatically do "The right
thing"..
but that's too late now, and I think it would be good for
cooperation to support some such settings ...
ideally in emacs basically via the same emacs "engine" that
drives the file variables.

Martin



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