I have read a significant number of vignettes from Bioconductor packages and I have never seen it used.
Kasper On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > On Aug 19, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> I am trying to improve the error reporting in Sweave documents, so that if >> you have a syntax error in a code chunk, it will tell you which line of your >> input file contained the error. >> >> For example, currently you get this: >> >> Error: chunk 1 (label=named) >> Error in parse(text = chunk) : unexpected symbol in "x <- foo bar" >> Execution halted >> >> and I'd like errors to be more like this: >> >> Error: chunk 1 (label=named) >> Error in parse(text = chunk, srcfile = srcfile) : >> test.Rnw:9:10: unexpected symbol >> 9: x <- foo bar >> ^ >> Execution halted >> >> It turns out that this requires changes that make the "expand=FALSE" option >> quite hard to implement. Is anyone using it? For those who don't know it, >> "expand=FALSE" means that a code chunk like >> >> <<echo=TRUE, keep.source=TRUE,expand=FALSE>>= >> z <- 3 >> <<named>> >> @ >> >> will be displayed as >> >> > z <- 3 >> > <<named>> >> >> rather than expanding the named chunk. I'd like to drop the option, so that >> the default behaviour (which has always been equivalent to "expand = TRUE") >> would be the only behaviour. >> >> Duncan Murdoch > > > I don't. So 1 "go ahead and drop it" vote... > > You may want to post this to R-Help though Duncan, as I suspect there may be > more Sweave users there than here... > > Thanks and regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel