[OS X TeX] R statistics package

[John Vokey]

I use Sweave routinely.  As it has no effect on what you are writing  
(other than table/figure references) you can just write your LaTeX  
document as normal, interweave the Sweave code, and just keep on  
writing.  Change your mind about the analysis/tables/figures?, just  
adjust the R (Sweave) code, and all is automagically changed in your  
document.  Whether you then adjust the LaTeX text to reflect the  
*meaning* of those changes is up to you, but all the heavy lifting  
otherwise is already done.

On 22-Feb-07, at 6:00 PM, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:

> I use Sweave and could not have explained it better than Michael did.
> It is a really nice option to document your analyses. Otherwise I
> have the bad habit of getting countless plots and analyses and a few
> months later I wonder what was done in what order and exactly for
> what reason. With Sweave I have a nice document explaining the whole
> thing. Better yet, you need to correct your data: you recompile your
> Sweave document, then the resulting tex document, and everything is
> redone with the corrected data.
>
> For a paper or a report, I do not work this way, I write it in LaTeX
> only because I'll probably only need to include a few pdf graphics
> produced with R. However my reason for doing this was that TeXShop
> does not have the proper syntax highlighting for Sweave, and
> TextWrangler either (I normally use the former for tex document and
> the latter for R documents. However I'll explore what Charilaos
> Skiadas has said about TextMate, maybe I'll use Sweave even more
> often if I get proper syntax highlighting.
>
> Denis


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