Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
Hi Stephen, On 28 December 2020 at 16:23, Stephen Bond wrote: | I have been struggling with trying to follow the steps in | https://r-pkgs.org/ and the best thing would be to have a similar | online book showing the steps with ESS. the Hadley book is chained to | RStudio and they assume

Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Stephen Bond via ESS-help
Hi Dirk, I have been struggling with trying to follow the steps in https://r-pkgs.org/ and the best thing would be to have a similar online book showing the steps with ESS. the Hadley book is chained to RStudio and they assume everybody uses RStudio, so many examples do not work as expected when

Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Liz Hare via ESS-help
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 > wrote: > > > A few weeks ago a few of riffed about all the "known unknown" in using ESS > and that

Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
On 28 December 2020 at 18:48, Greg Minshall wrote: | i'm a fan. thanks. someone already added ESS and orgmode to the | collwhatever site. i'd mostly be extracting information, as i'm not an | expert (but might be able to chip in during a discussion). | | i'd prefer an e-mail list or

Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Greg Minshall via ESS-help
Dirk, i'm a fan. thanks. someone already added ESS and orgmode to the collwhatever site. i'd mostly be extracting information, as i'm not an expert (but might be able to chip in during a discussion). i'd prefer an e-mail list or something else that doesn't require real-time observing (i've

Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
On 28 December 2020 at 10:05, Tyler Smith via ESS-help wrote: | I could reframe my talk as "an overview of Blogdown" to more clearly articulate a single goal. Sorry to be stickler but to keep this focused I would still say no. _Blogdown per se_ has no relationship with ESS. And I say that as

Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Tyler Smith via ESS-help
I understand your skepticism! I could reframe my talk as "an overview of Blogdown" to more clearly articulate a single goal. Best, Tyler -- plantarum.ca On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 9:51 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help wrote: > > On 28 December 2020 at 14:26, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help

Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
On 28 December 2020 at 14:26, Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help wrote: | All great ideas. How about ESS and Roxygen? Good one, added! On 28 December 2020 at 09:40, Tyler Smith wrote: | I'd be happy to demo blogging with Emacs, RMarkdown, Blogdown, Hugo, ESS etc. Colour me sceptical. That is a

Re: [ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Tyler Smith via ESS-help
Hi Dirk, I'd be happy to demo blogging with Emacs, RMarkdown, Blogdown, Hugo, ESS etc. I think a 5-10 minute demo with links to more detailed docs would be an engaging format. Best, Tyler -- plantarum.ca On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > A few weeks ago a few

[ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Sparapani, Rodney via ESS-help
Hi Dirk: All great ideas. How about ESS and Roxygen? There's also interest in using Emacs to view R graphics for which there is currently no support; but I think it I might be trivial based on some recent messages. I'm sure that we would come up with others if we ever get this off the ground.

[ESS] [OT] Best Practices Emacs / ESS Mini-Webinars

2020-12-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help
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