Re: Org-mode Code Blocks Manuscript: Request For Comments

[Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>]

Hi!

I very much appreciate your article as a nice introduction to org-babel
and its uses. As I'm going to introduce my colleagues into the nice
world of org-babel giving a talk sometime next term I'll shamelessly
steal from your work. (Of course giving attribution!) 

Some remarks: 
If you send it to Journal of _Statistical_ Software may be you should
be a little bit more focused on statistics. You article introduces
org-babel as a multi-language frontend to literate programming. What it
is, but there is little statistics in it.  

In their article Gentleman and Lang introduced the "statistical
compendium". In my opinion emacs + org-mode + babel +
all-programming-languages-we-know + LaTeX + HTML export build the first
incarnation of a tool to really create such a compendium, org-babel
being central in that chain. 
May be you can use some of Tom Dye's data to give an example of a
self-contained statistical workflow. I used his introduction given in
Worg to do my first steps in that direction. (Thx again Tom!) 
Doing everything beginning with data-cleaning over data analysis to
template generating and report publishing and presentation in one
text-file. 
That feature was, what caught me immediately as a statistician. 

If you want to focus on the simulation side (may be more focused on
academics) I would stress the "always-correctness" of graphs in
articles. You all know what I mean...

Just my 2 cents. Of course it is great as it stands  and surely I'm
biased by my own needs. 

Detlef 
(a statistician)

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:28:27 -0700
"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Dan Davison, Tom Dye, Carsten Dominik and myself have been working on a
> paper introducing Org-mode's code block functionality.  We plan to
> submit this paper to the Journal of Statistical Software.  As both
> Org-mode and the code block functionality are largely products of this
> mailing list community, and in the spirit of an open peer review process
> we are releasing the current draft of the paper here to solicit your
> review and comments.
> 
> Both the .org and .pdf formats of the paper are available at the
> following locations.
> 
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/org-paper/babel.org
> 
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/org-paper/babel.pdf
> 
> Thanks -- Eric
> 
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