Re: [O] Babel-R vs. ESS

2014-06-25 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Shiyuan gshy2...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I am learning R and use Emacs to work with R. I googled around and I found two options: ESS and Org-R/Org-Babel. Babel speaks multiple languages( Any languages?-if we write some sort of parser, which I assume is not terribly difficult under

Re: [O] Babel-R vs. ESS

2014-06-25 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Shiyuan, On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Shiyuan gshy2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am learning R and use Emacs to work with R. I googled around and I found two options: ESS and Org-R/Org-Babel. Org-Babel and ESS are not really alternatives; in fact the complement each other nicely.

Re: [O] Babel-R vs. ESS

2014-06-25 Thread Erik Iverson
+1 for Ista. Use both. I tend to write a lot of R code for reading in data, and then merging it with other sources and cleaning it. For my purposes, I usually do those activities in a .R file (so using ESS in Emacs), and output a 'tidy' data.frame ready for analysis. Then I might use org-mode to

Re: [O] Babel-R vs. ESS

2014-06-25 Thread Joost Helberg
Shiyuan, Babel-R uses ESS (session: parameter) for R-evaluation and interactive development/debugging. Babel-R is more than sufficient for publications with mixed text and graphs. regards, Joost Shiyuan == Shiyuan gshy2...@gmail.com writes: From: Shiyuan gshy2...@gmail.com To: