Grant Rettke <g...@wisdomandwonder.com> writes: Hi Grant,
> Last week I started learning about [RMarkdown]. It is a [literate > programming] tool implemented in, and for, the [ℝ programming > language]. Although I haven't dug in deep yet, I do know that (1) it is > /basically/ [Markdown] and that (2) `org' exports both to [vanilla > markdown] and also [GitHub flavored Markdown] and that (3) a lot of my > peers use `RMarkdown' and not `org'. With that that in mind I got > curious about what it would take to write an `org2rmarkdown' exporter. > > The scope of my interest is one-time exports for the most basic and > simple `org' document. As such, right now I have no requirements beyond > thinking about the opportunity. After doing some Internet searches, > there does not seem to be an exporter right now. Questions: > > • Does one exist and I missed it? > • Do you have any interest in such an exporter? > • Has anyone else ever thought of doing this? If yes, why didn't you? > • My guess is that doing an exporter that [builds on an existing > exporter], mentioned above, would be a great start. Thoughts? > • The big difference seems to be control statements passed to the > interpreter, which may or may not be necessary to convert. If not, > than the *stock* `markdown' exporter would provide everything > > Kind regards, what would acutally be the benefit of using RMarkdown over Org-mode, or put it another way - when you already use RMarkdown, why do you need Org-mode too? And if you use Org-mode, what does RMarkdown add to the table? And then there is Outshine too, which lets you switch seemlessly switch between ESS[R] and Org-mode, so you can program in R-mode, and write and export in Org-ode, as well as other LP modes like the old (now overhauled) ESS multi-mode and a new multi-mode developed by Phillip Lord, so one needs reasons to add just another tool to the tool stack IMO. > [RMarkdown] http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/ > > [literate programming] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming > > [ℝ programming language] http://www.r-project.org/ > > [Markdown] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax > > [vanilla markdown] http://orgmode.org/manual/Markdown-export.html > > [GitHub flavored Markdown] > http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/plain/contrib/lisp/ox-gfm.el > > [builds on an existing exporter] > http://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-export-back_002dends.html -- cheers, Thorsten
