Stephen, tyler and Naresh, thanks so much for your replies. I was confused by quarto, because of all the different languages it supports; I thought it was radically different than rmarkdown, and I didn't go down that path.
I think that an initial big confusion for me was that I thought the decision to use Org mode was completely independent of the decision to use rmarkdown. I thought I was composing rmarkdown (the language variant) with Org-mode (the Emacs tool). Now, I think I understand that if I want to use org-mode, I start with a document ending in .org and follow the directions in https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.html. Or, if I want to use Rmarkdown, I start with a document ending in .Rmd and follow the directions in https://plantarum.ca/2021/10/03/emacs-tutorial-rmarkdown/. Thank you all very much for helping me. I think I'll be okay from here, until the next problem crops up. -Kevin On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 02:21 +0000, Naresh Gurbuxani wrote: > For org-mode with R, this tutorial is up to date. > <https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.html> > > https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-R.html > > With this tutorial and org-mode guide included in emacs, I was able > to start using org-mode with R. > > > from my iPhone > > On Jan 30, 2025, at 5:02 PM, Tyler Smith via ESS-help > <ess-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, at 11:36 AM, Kevin Zembower via ESS-help > wrote: > > My question is, what link or source would you suggest for me to study > and work on to try to learn the current best-practices for using > Emacs/ESS and R to do literate programming? > > > Hi Kevin, > > Orgmode has a lot more features than RMarkdown, but this comes at a > price. It's *very* actively developed, and the documentation doesn't > always reflect the latest developments. Additionally, while there are > a *lot* of tutorials and walk-throughs online, they quickly get out > of date. > > RMarkdown is a little simpler, while providing all the most important > features of orgmode for literate R programming, at least for me. > > There is one thing from orgmode that I'd like to have in RMarkdown - > there is no way, that I know of, to have the results of an RMarkdown > code block inserted and updated in the source text of the document. > You can get the results inserted as part of export to html, pdf, etc. > > On the other hand, one thing I miss when working in orgmode is the > seamless way that polymode allows you to edit R code directly in the > RMarkdown buffer, without resorting to the indirect editing buffers > used by orgmode. > > Stephen has already pointed you to my tutorial. I was intending to > follow it with several more posts, but life got in the way. It should > still be accurate I hope! Let me know if you have trouble, or if > there are additional topics you need help with. > > https://plantarum.ca/2021/10/03/emacs-tutorial-rmarkdown/ > > - tyler > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
