Re: Anyone using or interested in an org to Rmarkdown exporter?

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

"Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> 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 ;)

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cheers,
Thorsten