On 9 Aug 2011, at 4:59PM, Sam Liddicott wrote: >> >> An alternative is to have a separate session for each document. This means >> that you can't easily share values between documents. The main times I use >> this is when I clean up a document, or sum it up - then I open a second, >> cleaned document. >> > > Sharing of sessions between documents scares me. I think because I don't want > to clean up a document. For this reason I generally avoid using shell > sessions - but a shell is probably much more stateful than an R session.
I'm not totally sure what you mean, but I think R sessions are as stateful as shell sessions, if not more. (You have variables/libraries loaded etc, you have you current directory, and sessions can be saved/loaded across restarts. They are saved in the current directory....) And you are right - it can be a big mess - within a document, while working, the result of a calculation can easily appear before the calculation, because you went up, or the calculation could have been erased. A lot of my time is wasted hunting up and down a document for where something was calculated.... but it also has its benefits, I guess like GOTOs in programming have their benefits.... hmm... But I work with TeXmacs more as a sophisticated terminal for R, not really as a way to generate documents with R in them. Michael _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
