Hello everyone, This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R.
I wanted to bring up to your attention that LyX is well suited for creating R [4] reports using Sweave. Provided that several "minor" customisations are applied to the base LyX distribution, LyX could become the preferred GUI tool for R users creating LaTeX reports. >From the article: Described customisation is not a difficult task (just 6 steps), but it would be desirable if LYX could support Sweave "out of the box". LYX has a convenient feature of configuration that is conditional on availability of various third party programs and LATEX files. The Sweave support for editing could be configured if 'Sweave.sty' is found, while R would have to be available for conversions. To achieve this, only minor changes would be needed in the LYX source. I think that the easiest way would be to add another argument, say -ns, to the tex2lyx converter that would drive the conversion of the Sweave file to LYX as it is done for noweb files, except that the Sweave-specific layout of files would be chosen. Additionally, the format name would have to be changed from literate to avoid collision with noweb. Unfortunately, I do not have the skills to work with C++ language for these changes. It would be nice if the LyX developers considered to apply these minor modifications to some future version (say, 1.6.0). It would effectively facilitate the task of creating R reports using LyX. [1] http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave [2] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/ [3] http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/utils/html/Sweave.html [4] http://cran.r-project.org/ Regards, Liviu
