From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: Anyone using or interested in an org to Rmarkdown exporter? Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:42:29 +0100 Message-ID: <8738a2n7ga.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87wq7fm1fj.fsf@gmx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkchO-0004Kx-Qq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:42:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkchI-0003UF-PS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:42:50 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44967) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkchI-0003UB-Ij for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:42:44 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkchF-0004rF-FW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:42:41 +0100 Received: from e178058250.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.58.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:42:41 +0100 Received: from tjolitz by e178058250.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:42:41 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "Charles C. Berry" writes: > As to Thorsten's query: > > ,---- > | what would acutally be the benefit of using RMarkdown over Org-mode, > | or put it another way - when you already use RMarkdown, why do you > | need Org-mode too? And if you use Org-mode, what does RMarkdown add to > | the table? > `---- > > There is some discussion of this in the README.org... > > If you already use org-mode: > > You get access to Sweave, knitr, slidify, pander, et cetera. > > Their `chunk' options (akin to babel header args) can be easier to use > than header args for complicated displays. > > Dependency aware caching of R objects is available in those engines > and its lack in Babel [1] is a serious impediment to working with long > running computations. > > bioConductor vignettes can be authored in org-mode and exported for a > suitable vignette engine. > > If you already use Rmarkdown, etc, you get the ease of editting and > working in org-mode - cycling visibility of headlines, lists, src > blocks, and results, and of storing results inline, previewing latex > fragments, and all. > > HTH, Yes, definitely, thanks for the info. So it makes sense to add another tool ;) -- cheers, Thorsten