Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Yihui Xie
The first version of knitr was just released to CRAN yesterday, so you will need to wait for one or two days for the Windows build on CRAN, and probably a few days for your local CRAN mirror to sync. As far as I can see, knitr has covered all the features in pgfSweave, so I do not plan to add a

PATCH disk image creation for branch

2012-01-18 Thread Stephan Witt
Richard, this affects packaging on Mac only. Ok for branch? Stephan dmg-make-2_0.diff Description: Binary data

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Jack Tanner
Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name writes: The first version of knitr was just released to CRAN yesterday, so you will need to wait for one or two days for the Windows build on CRAN, and probably a few days for your local CRAN mirror to sync. I just knew that you were going to release knitr the

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Yihui Xie
See http://yihui.github.com/knitr/demo/lyx/ Since you are using Windows, it is recommended to use the first approach (it is difficult and very time-consuming to compile LyX from source under Windows, as the second approach requires). Basically you rename lyxknitr.R to lyxsweave.R and put in under

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Jack Tanner
Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name writes: See http://yihui.github.com/knitr/demo/lyx/ Since you are using Windows, it is recommended to use the first approach (it is difficult and very time-consuming to compile LyX from source under Windows, as the second approach requires). Basically you

Re: [patch] support for the LaTeX package cancel in math (bug 6819)

2012-01-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2012 19:25, schrieb Georg Baum: This would be a fileformat change and will fix http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6819 . I would prefer to fix the GUI first before adding more packages. In fact there is no GUI entry necessary. Is there a reason why one should not want to use cancel

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Yihui Xie
That is not right, because the converters are not there if you do not re-compile LyX. Of course you can add the converters manually; see the changes in lib/configure.py at http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/7887/knitr.patch (further instructions on converters: section For Windows Users

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Xu Wang
Yihui, Thank you for your contributions! It's especially impressive how you're continuing to develop LyX support and documentation of Sweave, even though in some sense knitr is a competitor. From what I have been reading, knitr has clear advantages. Are the following correct? 1. knitr will be

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Hi Xu, I'm not in the LyX core team, meaning that I cannot make decisions. For now, I only know the Sweave manual will be under the Help menu in 2.0.3, and the rest of things about knitr still need to wait for the approval of LyX core members (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7887). I have no idea

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Yihui Xie
The first version of knitr was just released to CRAN yesterday, so you will need to wait for one or two days for the Windows build on CRAN, and probably a few days for your local CRAN mirror to sync. As far as I can see, knitr has covered all the features in pgfSweave, so I do not plan to add a

PATCH disk image creation for branch

2012-01-18 Thread Stephan Witt
Richard, this affects packaging on Mac only. Ok for branch? Stephan dmg-make-2_0.diff Description: Binary data

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Jack Tanner
Yihui Xie yihui.name> writes: > > The first version of knitr was just released to CRAN yesterday, so you > will need to wait for one or two days for the Windows build on CRAN, > and probably a few days for your local CRAN mirror to sync. I just knew that you were going to release knitr the

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Yihui Xie
See http://yihui.github.com/knitr/demo/lyx/ Since you are using Windows, it is recommended to use the first approach (it is difficult and very time-consuming to compile LyX from source under Windows, as the second approach requires). Basically you rename lyxknitr.R to lyxsweave.R and put in under

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Jack Tanner
Yihui Xie yihui.name> writes: > > See http://yihui.github.com/knitr/demo/lyx/ > > Since you are using Windows, it is recommended to use the first > approach (it is difficult and very time-consuming to compile LyX from > source under Windows, as the second approach requires). Basically you >

Re: [patch] support for the LaTeX package cancel in math (bug 6819)

2012-01-18 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 07.01.2012 19:25, schrieb Georg Baum: This would be a fileformat change and will fix http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6819 . I would prefer to fix the GUI first before adding more packages. In fact there is no GUI entry necessary. Is there a reason why one should not want to use cancel

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Yihui Xie
That is not right, because the converters are not there if you do not re-compile LyX. Of course you can add the converters manually; see the changes in lib/configure.py at http://www.lyx.org/trac/attachment/ticket/7887/knitr.patch (further instructions on converters: section "For Windows Users"

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Xu Wang
Yihui, Thank you for your contributions! It's especially impressive how you're continuing to develop LyX support and documentation of Sweave, even though in some sense knitr is a competitor. From what I have been reading, knitr has clear advantages. Are the following correct? 1. knitr will be

Re: plans for Sweave

2012-01-18 Thread Yihui Xie
Hi Xu, I'm not in the LyX core team, meaning that I cannot make decisions. For now, I only know the Sweave manual will be under the Help menu in 2.0.3, and the rest of things about knitr still need to wait for the approval of LyX core members (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7887). I have no idea