This is a great idea! I am working on transitioning to using ESS with R scripts to Rmd, and I could definitely use tips!
Liz > On Dec 28, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help > <ess-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > > A few weeks ago a few of riffed about all the "known unknown" in using ESS > and that teaching each other a few tricks would be cool. We really should do > this. To kick it off, maybe we should spawn a quick one-off mailing list (I > have used groups.io before) or Slack instance (if someone wants to spawn one) > to discuss. > > From the top of my head I can think of possible topics such as > > - installing ESS (possibly special mention to the bundles by VG for Windows > and macOS, or KH for social science, or ...) -- no difficulty installing > > - basic editing, highlighting etc maybe up to easily running multiple > buffers and renaming them > > - other relevant Emacs tricks ? > > - ESS and RMarkdown happily co-existing and examples / demos > > - package building with ESS (I tend to do it outside myself) > > - debugging with ESS > > - other Emacs voodoo like tramp use with ESS ? > > - object browsers > > - your most favourite trick here! > > - your second most favourite trick here too! > > I have found that 'one topic' in a few slides and very few minutes works so > we could easily split this across different interest and skills and > environments used and whatever other factor. Not everybody will know all > topics to gaps are normal -- let's fill them. > > Dirk > > -- > https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help