Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb:
No it cannot and should have also not be committed to trunk. The
problem is that sweave.sty is not available at CTAN or at a trustable
official webpage.
Sweave.sty is part of R, which is probably considered as more trustable
than LyX itself by many.
The problem is that we look only for the file Sweave.sty. but LaTeX won't find it, because it is not
available at CTAN. So even when you have R installed. it won't be found.
Another problem is that the file Sweave.sty doesn't contain any info about the
author or license.
So currently Sweave is not usable, because one can't get the needed TeX style file so that LateX
recognize it. We can also not deliver the file for example directly with LyX because of the missing
license statement.
sweave.sty is irrelevant without R, and therefore there is no use to
have it on CTAN.
I still think it would be useful since Sweave as a LaTeX-package. It needs R, but is a
LaTeX-package. When it would be at CTAN too, not only at CRAN, it can be included to
LateX-distributions. Then MiKTeX and TeXLive can install it and the user only needs to install R
while LyX/LaTeX does the rest for him.
regards Uwe
