[R-wiki] [Fwd: Sweave to wiki script]

Discussion:

Ben Bolker

2007-08-30 19:23:04 UTC

awfully quiet around here ...
does anyone have opinions about this?

I put up a preliminary Sweave-to-wiki script on the wiki.
Comments and improvements are welcome.
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:latex2wiki
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Philippe Grosjean

2007-08-30 20:45:41 UTC

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Hi Ben,

This looks great (note that I wanted to test it first before
answering... still haven't found time for that)! However, I think that
it is easier to work on Wiki page and eventually convert it to
LaTeX/Sweave than in the other direction. So, do you mean you plan to
write Wiki pages in LaTeX???
Best,

Philippe

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Post by Ben Bolker
awfully quiet around here ...
does anyone have opinions about this?

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Martin Maechler

2007-08-31 07:08:16 UTC

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"PhGr" == Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org>

PhGr> Hi Ben,
PhGr> This looks great (note that I wanted to test it first before
PhGr> answering... still haven't found time for that)! However, I think that
PhGr> it is easier to work on Wiki page and eventually convert it to
PhGr> LaTeX/Sweave than in the other direction. So, do you mean you plan to
PhGr> write Wiki pages in LaTeX???

[Excuse Ben, for answering in European time (while you're sleeping)]

No! Probably not at all.

I see the very big potential use quite differently:

Many of us are in academics where we are supposed to produce
presentations and "papers". The modern ones among us (:-) ;-))
may use Sweave to do both of this.

Hence: If Ben's tool "works", we now can pretty quickly put our
presentations, e.g., from UseR!2007, into the R-wicki without
much extra work.

This seems a tremendously nice potential!
But then, as Philippe, I haven't found time yet to try it out...

Regards,
Martin

Philippe Grosjean

2007-08-31 11:48:58 UTC

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OK, that makes a lot of sense.

PhG

Post by Martin Maechler

"PhGr" == Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org>

PhGr> Hi Ben,
PhGr> This looks great (note that I wanted to test it first before
PhGr> answering... still haven't found time for that)! However, I think that
PhGr> it is easier to work on Wiki page and eventually convert it to
PhGr> LaTeX/Sweave than in the other direction. So, do you mean you plan to
PhGr> write Wiki pages in LaTeX???
[Excuse Ben, for answering in European time (while you're sleeping)]
No! Probably not at all.
Many of us are in academics where we are supposed to produce
presentations and "papers". The modern ones among us (:-) ;-))
may use Sweave to do both of this.
Hence: If Ben's tool "works", we now can pretty quickly put our
presentations, e.g., from UseR!2007, into the R-wicki without
much extra work.
This seems a tremendously nice potential!
But then, as Philippe, I haven't found time yet to try it out...
Regards,
Martin

Ben Bolker

2007-08-31 12:55:16 UTC

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Thanks, Martin.
A couple of other things: since I don't have DokuWiki installed
locally, developing wiki pages means being online. And I know
LaTeX much better than wiki code. And the "preview" mode
in the wiki is somewhat slow.

The code is definitely a draft-0, but I will try to improve it.

Ben

Post by Philippe Grosjean
OK, that makes a lot of sense.
PhG

Post by Martin Maechler

"PhGr" == Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org>

PhGr> Hi Ben,
PhGr> This looks great (note that I wanted to test it first
before PhGr> answering... still haven't found time for that)!
However, I think that PhGr> it is easier to work on Wiki page and
eventually convert it to PhGr> LaTeX/Sweave than in the other
direction. So, do you mean you plan to PhGr> write Wiki pages in
LaTeX???
[Excuse Ben, for answering in European time (while you're sleeping)]
No! Probably not at all.
Many of us are in academics where we are supposed to produce
presentations and "papers". The modern ones among us (:-) ;-))
may use Sweave to do both of this.
Hence: If Ben's tool "works", we now can pretty quickly put our
presentations, e.g., from UseR!2007, into the R-wicki without
much extra work.
This seems a tremendously nice potential!
But then, as Philippe, I haven't found time yet to try it out...
Regards,
Martin