Le 14/12/10 13:21, Friedrich Leisch a écrit :
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:40:04 +0100,
Romain Francois (RF) wrote:

   >  Hello,
   >  Sweave lets you use alternative drivers through the driver argument, and
   >  several packages take advantage of that and define custom Sweave driver
   >  for various purposes. Most of them are listed on the Reproducible
   >  Research CTV:
   >  (http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.html)

   >  The next natural step is for package developpers to take advantage of
   >  this in their vignettes. In Rcpp we work around the way package building
   >  works and we do:
   >  - let R build a dummy vignette
   >  - then use the inst/doc/Makefile to replace it with a vignette that is
   >  processed by the driver from the highlight package (giving syntax
   >  highlighting).

   >  I played with Sweave so that it would be able to create the driver from
   >  some text included in the text of the .Rnw file:

   >  $ svn diff
   >  Index: src/library/utils/R/Sweave.R
   >  ===================================================================
   >  --- src/library/utils/R/Sweave.R       (revision 53846)
   >  +++ src/library/utils/R/Sweave.R       (working copy)
   >  @@ -20,6 +20,16 @@
   >    # We don't need srclines for code, but we do need it for text, and
   >  it's easiest
   >    # to just keep it for everything.

   >  +SweaveGetDriver<- function(file){
   >  +    txt<- readLines(file)
   >  +    line<- grep( "\\SweaveDriver", txt, value = TRUE )
   >  +    if( length(line) ){
   >  +        txt<- sub( "^.*\\SweaveDriver[{](.*)[}]", "\\1", line[1L] )
   >  +        driver<- try( eval( parse( text = txt ) ), silent = TRUE )
   >  +        if( !inherits( driver, "try-error") ) driver
   >  +    }
   >  +}
   >  +
   >    Sweave<- function(file, driver=RweaveLatex(),
   >                       syntax=getOption("SweaveSyntax"), ...)
   >    {
   >  @@ -28,7 +38,9 @@
   >        else if(is.function(driver))
   >            driver<- driver()

   >  -
   >  +    drv<- SweaveGetDriver(file)
   >  +    if( !is.null(drv) ) driver<- drv
   >  +
   >        if(is.null(syntax))
   >            syntax<- SweaveGetSyntax(file)
   >        if(is.character(syntax))



   >  This allows one to write something like this in their file:

   >  %\SweaveDriver{ { require(highlight); HighlightWeaveLatex() } }

   >  So that when calling :

   >>  Sweave( "somefile.Rnw" )

   >  the highlight driver is used instead of the default driver.

   >  Could something like that be added to Sweave ?

Yes, sure!

Will have a look at the patch later this week and apply it if it
passes the tests.

Great. Let me know if I can expand on it (documentation, etc ...)

The patch is against a current r-devel?

yes. rev 53846.

Best,
Fritz



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|- http://bit.ly/fT2rZM : highlight 0.2-5
|- http://bit.ly/gpCSpH : Evolution of Rcpp code size
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