RE: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Gorjanc Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: take a look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do that, since I was not the original poster. FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available. The problem is of course when both are available. Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it personally. Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody willing to work on it. I think 1.6 series is fine. Regards, Gregor
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Paul Johnson wrote: I think the other part--the layout part--is just cosmetic. It controls the way the R code chunks look on the screen only. The R code chunks can be written as ordinary ERT. If the Lyx user is happy enough to just put in ERT (without a layout representation in the on-screen display), the document will go through LaTeX and R fine. It does not matter what the blocks of ERT are called. You could follow Gregor's example and add a layout environment that is common to all noweb document classes. It could be called Scrap or Schunk. Note in Gregor's Layouts, the structure is simple. He includes the existing noweb document layout and a literate-scrap.inc. For 1.6, this can be created as a module that can then be used with any document class. That conversion may be as simple as renaming the file with the .module extension and adding the appropriate header. See the docs in 1.6.svn. There is a more serious problem that I was never able to overcome. If one writes a book LyX, the R code chunks will be properly processed only if they are actually in the main book file. If one follows the usual practice of writing chapters and then putting them together with includes in the main book file, then in my experience, the R code does not get processed. I would be eager to see a working example of an R book that solved this problem. I asked about this in the LyX user list last year and didn't get any answers, so I assumed it was an intractable problem. This may be a known sort of problem. If you're putting all the relevant header info in the main document---e.g., in the preamble---then it won't be seen when you compile the children. The solution (workaround) is to include that info in the child as well. At present, children don't know about their parents unless they are loaded as children of the parents, and even then they don't import the parent's preamble when compiled separately. rh
RE: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Gorjanc Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: take a look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do that, since I was not the original poster. FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available. The problem is of course when both are available. Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it personally. Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody willing to work on it. I think 1.6 series is fine. Regards, Gregor
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Paul Johnson wrote: I think the other part--the layout part--is just cosmetic. It controls the way the R code chunks look on the screen only. The R code chunks can be written as ordinary ERT. If the Lyx user is happy enough to just put in ERT (without a layout representation in the on-screen display), the document will go through LaTeX and R fine. It does not matter what the blocks of ERT are called. You could follow Gregor's example and add a layout environment that is common to all noweb document classes. It could be called Scrap or Schunk. Note in Gregor's Layouts, the structure is simple. He includes the existing noweb document layout and a literate-scrap.inc. For 1.6, this can be created as a module that can then be used with any document class. That conversion may be as simple as renaming the file with the .module extension and adding the appropriate header. See the docs in 1.6.svn. There is a more serious problem that I was never able to overcome. If one writes a book LyX, the R code chunks will be properly processed only if they are actually in the main book file. If one follows the usual practice of writing chapters and then putting them together with includes in the main book file, then in my experience, the R code does not get processed. I would be eager to see a working example of an R book that solved this problem. I asked about this in the LyX user list last year and didn't get any answers, so I assumed it was an intractable problem. This may be a known sort of problem. If you're putting all the relevant header info in the main document---e.g., in the preamble---then it won't be seen when you compile the children. The solution (workaround) is to include that info in the child as well. At present, children don't know about their parents unless they are loaded as children of the parents, and even then they don't import the parent's preamble when compiled separately. rh
RE: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - "out of the box" support for creating R reports
Gorjanc Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> take a look at >> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 >> >> I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do >> that, since I was not the original poster. > FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure > what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to > configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available. The problem is of course when both are available. > Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new > support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought > and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it personally. > Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody > willing to work on it. I think 1.6 series is fine. Regards, Gregor
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - "out of the box" support for creating R reports
Paul Johnson wrote: I think the other part--the layout part--is just cosmetic. It controls the way the R code chunks look on the screen only. The R code chunks can be written as ordinary ERT. If the Lyx user is happy enough to just put in ERT (without a layout representation in the on-screen display), the document will go through LaTeX and R fine. It does not matter what the blocks of ERT are called. You could follow Gregor's example and add a layout environment that is common to all noweb document classes. It could be called "Scrap" or "Schunk". Note in Gregor's Layouts, the structure is simple. He includes the existing noweb document layout and a "literate-scrap.inc". For 1.6, this can be created as a module that can then be used with any document class. That conversion may be as simple as renaming the file with the .module extension and adding the appropriate header. See the docs in 1.6.svn. There is a more serious problem that I was never able to overcome. If one writes a book LyX, the R code chunks will be properly processed only if they are actually in the main book file. If one follows the usual practice of writing chapters and then putting them together with includes in the main book file, then in my experience, the R code does not get processed. I would be eager to see a working example of an R book that solved this problem. I asked about this in the LyX user list last year and didn't get any answers, so I assumed it was an intractable problem. This may be a known sort of problem. If you're putting all the relevant header info in the main document---e.g., in the preamble---then it won't be seen when you compile the children. The solution (workaround) is to include that info in the child as well. At present, children don't know about their parents unless they are loaded as children of the parents, and even then they don't import the parent's preamble when compiled separately. rh
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
On 1/3/08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet done. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 Gregor took care of updating the bug report accordingly. Regards, Liviu
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Gorjanc Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: take a look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do that, since I was not the original poster. FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available. Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it personally. Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody willing to work on it. JMarc
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
On Jan 4, 2008 7:32 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gorjanc Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
take a look at
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286
I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do
that, since I was not the original poster.
FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure
what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to
configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available.
Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new
support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought
and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it
personally.
Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody
willing to work on it.
JMarc
It appears to me that this is mostly superficial. The change in the R
batch processing has simplified the problem somewhat from when I was
working on it originally. Now it is no longer necessary to use that
small bash script to pass the LyX noweb output to R. Rather, one can
simply make one Lyx preference change, either with the lyx GUI
preference changer or by adding a like like this in ~/.lyx/preferences
\converter literate latex R CMD Sweave $$i
It appears to me this does the trick even if one does not install Sweave.sty.
Take one the lyx documents I have posted here (files that use the
ordinary Lyx noweb article layout)
http://pj.freefaculty.org/stat/Distributions
Take Normal-01.lyx. You can see how the output is supposed to look
because I have the pdf file posted as well. If you have R installed,
then open the document in LyX and the document will be processed just
fine. I do not think it is necessary to put Sweave.sty in the LaTeX
path, but, as I originally said in 2006, it is necessary to have
noweb.sty. It is not necessary to have the whole noweb installation,
just that file.
I think the other part--the layout part--is just cosmetic. It controls
the way the R code chunks look on the screen only. The R code chunks
can be written as ordinary ERT. If the Lyx user is happy enough to
just put in ERT (without a layout representation in the on-screen
display), the document will go through LaTeX and R fine. It does not
matter what the blocks of ERT are called.
You could follow Gregor's example and add a layout environment that is
common to all noweb document classes. It could be called Scrap or
Schunk. Note in Gregor's Layouts, the structure is simple. He
includes the existing noweb document layout and a
literate-scrap.inc.
There is a more serious problem that I was never able to overcome. If
one writes a book LyX, the R code chunks will be properly processed
only if they are actually in the main book file. If one follows the
usual practice of writing chapters and then putting them together with
includes in the main book file, then in my experience, the R code does
not get processed. I would be eager to see a working example of an R
book that solved this problem. I asked about this in the LyX user
list last year and didn't get any answers, so I assumed it was an
intractable problem.
pj
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
Here's Sweave.sty:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{Sweave}{}
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\ProcessOptions
\RequirePackage{graphicx,fancyvrb}
\IfFileExists{upquote.sty}{\RequirePackage{upquote}}{}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}
\RequirePackage{ae}
}{}%
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Sinput}{Verbatim}{fontshape=sl}
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Soutput}{Verbatim}{}
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Scode}{Verbatim}{fontshape=sl}
\newenvironment{Schunk}{}{}
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
On 1/3/08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet done. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 Gregor took care of updating the bug report accordingly. Regards, Liviu
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Gorjanc Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: take a look at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do that, since I was not the original poster. FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available. Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it personally. Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody willing to work on it. JMarc
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
On Jan 4, 2008 7:32 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gorjanc Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
take a look at
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286
I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do
that, since I was not the original poster.
FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure
what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to
configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available.
Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new
support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought
and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it
personally.
Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody
willing to work on it.
JMarc
It appears to me that this is mostly superficial. The change in the R
batch processing has simplified the problem somewhat from when I was
working on it originally. Now it is no longer necessary to use that
small bash script to pass the LyX noweb output to R. Rather, one can
simply make one Lyx preference change, either with the lyx GUI
preference changer or by adding a like like this in ~/.lyx/preferences
\converter literate latex R CMD Sweave $$i
It appears to me this does the trick even if one does not install Sweave.sty.
Take one the lyx documents I have posted here (files that use the
ordinary Lyx noweb article layout)
http://pj.freefaculty.org/stat/Distributions
Take Normal-01.lyx. You can see how the output is supposed to look
because I have the pdf file posted as well. If you have R installed,
then open the document in LyX and the document will be processed just
fine. I do not think it is necessary to put Sweave.sty in the LaTeX
path, but, as I originally said in 2006, it is necessary to have
noweb.sty. It is not necessary to have the whole noweb installation,
just that file.
I think the other part--the layout part--is just cosmetic. It controls
the way the R code chunks look on the screen only. The R code chunks
can be written as ordinary ERT. If the Lyx user is happy enough to
just put in ERT (without a layout representation in the on-screen
display), the document will go through LaTeX and R fine. It does not
matter what the blocks of ERT are called.
You could follow Gregor's example and add a layout environment that is
common to all noweb document classes. It could be called Scrap or
Schunk. Note in Gregor's Layouts, the structure is simple. He
includes the existing noweb document layout and a
literate-scrap.inc.
There is a more serious problem that I was never able to overcome. If
one writes a book LyX, the R code chunks will be properly processed
only if they are actually in the main book file. If one follows the
usual practice of writing chapters and then putting them together with
includes in the main book file, then in my experience, the R code does
not get processed. I would be eager to see a working example of an R
book that solved this problem. I asked about this in the LyX user
list last year and didn't get any answers, so I assumed it was an
intractable problem.
pj
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
Here's Sweave.sty:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{Sweave}{}
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\ProcessOptions
\RequirePackage{graphicx,fancyvrb}
\IfFileExists{upquote.sty}{\RequirePackage{upquote}}{}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}
\RequirePackage{ae}
}{}%
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Sinput}{Verbatim}{fontshape=sl}
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Soutput}{Verbatim}{}
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Scode}{Verbatim}{fontshape=sl}
\newenvironment{Schunk}{}{}
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - "out of the box" support for creating R reports
On 1/3/08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet > done. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 Gregor took care of updating the bug report accordingly. Regards, Liviu
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - "out of the box" support for creating R reports
Gorjanc Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > take a look at > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286 > > I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do > that, since I was not the original poster. FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available. Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it personally. Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody willing to work on it. JMarc
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - "out of the box" support for creating R reports
On Jan 4, 2008 7:32 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gorjanc Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > take a look at
> > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4286
> >
> > I did try to change the milestone to 1.6, but was not able to do
> > that, since I was not the original poster.
>
> FWIW, I have downloaded the paper and began to read it. I am not sure
> what is the best way to proceed. I guess it would be enough to
> configure either noweb or Sweave depending on which one is available.
> Also it would be nice to be able to use this with any class. The new
> support for modules should be enough for that, but it needs thought
> and a bit of design. I doubt I will have time to work on it
> personally.
>
> Unfortunately, the target will be set to 1.6 only if we find somebody
> willing to work on it.
>
> JMarc
>
It appears to me that this is mostly superficial. The change in the R
batch processing has simplified the problem somewhat from when I was
working on it originally. Now it is no longer necessary to use that
small bash script to pass the LyX noweb output to R. Rather, one can
simply make one Lyx preference change, either with the lyx GUI
preference changer or by adding a like like this in ~/.lyx/preferences
\converter "literate" "latex" "R CMD Sweave $$i" ""
It appears to me this "does the trick" even if one does not install Sweave.sty.
Take one the lyx documents I have posted here (files that use the
ordinary Lyx noweb article layout)
http://pj.freefaculty.org/stat/Distributions
Take Normal-01.lyx. You can see how the output is supposed to look
because I have the pdf file posted as well. If you have R installed,
then open the document in LyX and the document will be processed just
fine. I do not think it is necessary to put Sweave.sty in the LaTeX
path, but, as I originally said in 2006, it is necessary to have
noweb.sty. It is not necessary to have the whole noweb installation,
just that file.
I think the other part--the layout part--is just cosmetic. It controls
the way the R code chunks look on the screen only. The R code chunks
can be written as ordinary ERT. If the Lyx user is happy enough to
just put in ERT (without a layout representation in the on-screen
display), the document will go through LaTeX and R fine. It does not
matter what the blocks of ERT are called.
You could follow Gregor's example and add a layout environment that is
common to all noweb document classes. It could be called "Scrap" or
"Schunk". Note in Gregor's Layouts, the structure is simple. He
includes the existing noweb document layout and a
"literate-scrap.inc".
There is a more serious problem that I was never able to overcome. If
one writes a book LyX, the R code chunks will be properly processed
only if they are actually in the main book file. If one follows the
usual practice of writing chapters and then putting them together with
includes in the main book file, then in my experience, the R code does
not get processed. I would be eager to see a working example of an R
book that solved this problem. I asked about this in the LyX user
list last year and didn't get any answers, so I assumed it was an
intractable problem.
pj
--
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas
Here's Sweave.sty:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{Sweave}{}
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\ProcessOptions
\RequirePackage{graphicx,fancyvrb}
\IfFileExists{upquote.sty}{\RequirePackage{upquote}}{}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}
\RequirePackage{ae}
}{}%
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Sinput}{Verbatim}{fontshape=sl}
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Soutput}{Verbatim}{}
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Scode}{Verbatim}{fontshape=sl}
\newenvironment{Schunk}{}{}
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. Hello, Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet done. JMarc
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. Hello, Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet done. JMarc
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - "out of the box" support for creating R reports
"Liviu Andronic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by > Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] > describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so > that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. Hello, Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet done. JMarc
[feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Hello everyone, This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. I wanted to bring up to your attention that LyX is well suited for creating R [4] reports using Sweave. Provided that several minor customisations are applied to the base LyX distribution, LyX could become the preferred GUI tool for R users creating LaTeX reports. From the article: Described customisation is not a difficult task (just 6 steps), but it would be desirable if LYX could support Sweave out of the box. LYX has a convenient feature of configuration that is conditional on availability of various third party programs and LATEX files. The Sweave support for editing could be configured if 'Sweave.sty' is found, while R would have to be available for conversions. To achieve this, only minor changes would be needed in the LYX source. I think that the easiest way would be to add another argument, say -ns, to the tex2lyx converter that would drive the conversion of the Sweave file to LYX as it is done for noweb files, except that the Sweave-specific layout of files would be chosen. Additionally, the format name would have to be changed from literate to avoid collision with noweb. Unfortunately, I do not have the skills to work with C++ language for these changes. It would be nice if the LyX developers considered to apply these minor modifications to some future version (say, 1.6.0). It would effectively facilitate the task of creating R reports using LyX. [1] http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave [2] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/ [3] http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/utils/html/Sweave.html [4] http://cran.r-project.org/ Regards, Liviu
[feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Hello everyone, This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. I wanted to bring up to your attention that LyX is well suited for creating R [4] reports using Sweave. Provided that several minor customisations are applied to the base LyX distribution, LyX could become the preferred GUI tool for R users creating LaTeX reports. From the article: Described customisation is not a difficult task (just 6 steps), but it would be desirable if LYX could support Sweave out of the box. LYX has a convenient feature of configuration that is conditional on availability of various third party programs and LATEX files. The Sweave support for editing could be configured if 'Sweave.sty' is found, while R would have to be available for conversions. To achieve this, only minor changes would be needed in the LYX source. I think that the easiest way would be to add another argument, say -ns, to the tex2lyx converter that would drive the conversion of the Sweave file to LYX as it is done for noweb files, except that the Sweave-specific layout of files would be chosen. Additionally, the format name would have to be changed from literate to avoid collision with noweb. Unfortunately, I do not have the skills to work with C++ language for these changes. It would be nice if the LyX developers considered to apply these minor modifications to some future version (say, 1.6.0). It would effectively facilitate the task of creating R reports using LyX. [1] http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave [2] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/ [3] http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/utils/html/Sweave.html [4] http://cran.r-project.org/ Regards, Liviu
[feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - "out of the box" support for creating R reports
Hello everyone, This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. I wanted to bring up to your attention that LyX is well suited for creating R [4] reports using Sweave. Provided that several "minor" customisations are applied to the base LyX distribution, LyX could become the preferred GUI tool for R users creating LaTeX reports. >From the article: Described customisation is not a difficult task (just 6 steps), but it would be desirable if LYX could support Sweave "out of the box". LYX has a convenient feature of configuration that is conditional on availability of various third party programs and LATEX files. The Sweave support for editing could be configured if 'Sweave.sty' is found, while R would have to be available for conversions. To achieve this, only minor changes would be needed in the LYX source. I think that the easiest way would be to add another argument, say -ns, to the tex2lyx converter that would drive the conversion of the Sweave file to LYX as it is done for noweb files, except that the Sweave-specific layout of files would be chosen. Additionally, the format name would have to be changed from literate to avoid collision with noweb. Unfortunately, I do not have the skills to work with C++ language for these changes. It would be nice if the LyX developers considered to apply these minor modifications to some future version (say, 1.6.0). It would effectively facilitate the task of creating R reports using LyX. [1] http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave [2] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/ [3] http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/utils/html/Sweave.html [4] http://cran.r-project.org/ Regards, Liviu
