Re: Working with Lyx and Sweave; pasting R-code from Emacs into Lyx seems awkward. Any suggestions?

[Mark Dalphin]

Thanks to both Scott Kostyshak and Yihui Xie (I appreciate Yihui not 
reminding me that he has already suggested I switch to knitr). I 
mis-wrote when I said "scrap" in my text; it is indeed the "chunk" into 
which I paste my text from Emacs.

When I use "ctrl-shift-v" into a chunk that I have pre-filled with 
"<<echo=FALSE,fig=TRUE>>=\n" (where "\n" means I am on the next line, 
not the literal characters), the first line adds correctly, then there 
is a blank line and change of paragraph type into "Standard", with the 
remaining lines in that standard paragraph.

If I change my work order and paste-special into a "Standard" paragraph, 
it looks alright, but then selection of those lines and conversion to a 
"Chunk" paragraph yields a similar output: one good, chunk line, a blank 
line plus several lines in the following "Standard" paragraph.

Trying Yihui's ERT format seemed to paste correctly, however, I am left 
wondering then "in what kind of paragraph" should the ERT exist. Just as 
a stand-alone "Standard" paragraph? I can live with that if it leads to 
clean processing of my report. Does anyone have any comments on possible 
side-effects of using the ERT to contain the Sweave material?

Cheers,
Mark

Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Mark Dalphin
<mark.dalp...@pacificedge.co.nz> wrote:
  
I usually develop my R-code in Emacs (ESS-mode). This permits me to refine
my tables and graphs before I incorporate them into Lyx. This is much faster
as it interactive and avoids the time to run LaTeX (or export the R, etc
etc). Then I write the text part of my report, and, in the Lyx scrap, I
paste the required chunks of R-code. Nice and simple (thank you!). The
problem is that when I paste the R-code from Emacs to the Lyx scrap, the
End-Of-Line character gets converted into something else (a BLANK or some
other white space, I guess), which is not acceptable to the R-parser when
Sweave runs. This means that every paste operation is followed by many edit
operations to convert the blanks back into new-lines.

Is is possible to prevent this mangling of the paste?
    

Hi Mark,

Does ctrl+shift+v work for you? Or, Edit > Paste Special > Plain Text ?

Best,

Scott

  

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