On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> I would like to backtrack on this. Let's change "this is not just a >> personal preference" to "this is just a personal preference". Please >> google to read about the differences. > > > Scott, > > Eh, semantics. From what I've read knitr is an augmented Sweave that > makes it a better choice for most. If it works for me, that's all the > difference I need. :-) > While not developed much these days, Sweave has the merit of being stable and mostly ironed out; updating your installation is unlikely to break your documents.
knitr on the other hand can be a moving target, and not always backwards compatible; sometimes updating knitr may end up in your documents failing to compile with obscure errors due to subtle changes. (Most of the times issues can be worked around or fixed easily.) This said, I would agree with Scott that knitr is preferable when you start out with R and all this knitting and weaving stuff, as it is incredibly flexible and feature-rich, and is clearly becoming the standard for the future. Soon only old dinosaurs will still be weaving their documents, as opposed to knitting them... Liviu > Rich > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
