On Friday, March 22, 2013 2:47:24 PM UTC-4, Dan Drake wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 at 09:57AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: 
> > Does anyone with experience with Sweave/knitr (in R) have any comments 
> > about whether SageTeX is easier or harder to use than that? 
>
> I used Sweave to write an exam (which also used SageTeX...) and looking 
> at it again, I see that after you run "R CMD Sweave ..." (which is built 
> into R the same way that the SageTeX Python module is built into Sage), 
> you get a LaTeX file that requires Sweave.sty. That .sty file is, on my 
> computer, in /usr/share/R/share/texmf/tex/latex/ and I just made a 
> symlink to that from my own texmf directory. 
>
> So it seems to be about the same effort to me. (But perhaps I'm not a 
> good person to make that judgment...) I'll make a note to compare some 
> of the R things when I fix up the SageTeX installation guide. 
>

By the way, the "state of the art" is now the knitr package.

http://yihui.name/knitr/

Note the pgf use, and "allowing any languages", whatever that means.

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