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.e...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
