Re: 2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Yihui Xie
That is good to know. Thanks a lot for the experiment! I need to add this approach to the manual; it is much easier (and safer) than messing with the PATH variable directly. I often feel extremely frustrated with instructing Windows users on how to modify PATH. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone:

Re: 2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Jack Tanner
Yihui Xie yihui.name> writes: > > Or maybe it is easier to modify the preferences? > Tools-->Preferences-->Paths-->PATH prefix. I have never tried it. This works perfectly. Even better, it interpolates environment variables: Set R_HOME globally, e.g., to C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0 Then in Ly

Re: 2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Yihui Xie
We mentioned this once before (http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/72719), but did not get anybody work on it. So let's call for python hackers again: it will be fantastic if LyX is able to find Rscript automatically under Windows (from environmental variables RHOME, R_HOME or from

Re: 2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: > We need someone to update the wiki pages (I'm quite busy these days); > This should be coordinated with the original authors. I never quite understood those instructions, but I think there are still people using them. Liviu > currently you shou

Re: 2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > Just curious -- why isn't Yihui's manual in the Help menu in LyX? Because > it's still a work in progress? > It didn't get into 2.0.2 because of the string freeze. It's in for 2.0.3. Also, it is already shipped in 'examples'. Liviu http://www.lyx.o

Re: 2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Jack Tanner
Yihui Xie yihui.name> writes: > > We need someone to update the wiki pages (I'm quite busy these days); > currently you should refer to the manual built-in with LyX > (examples/sweave.lyx), and a PDF version is here: > https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf Thanks! Looks like a very

Re: 2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Xu Wang
Just curious -- why isn't Yihui's manual in the Help menu in LyX? Because it's still a work in progress? Xu On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: > We need someone to update the wiki pages (I'm quite busy these days); > currently you should refer to the manual built-in with LyX > (ex

Re: 2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Yihui Xie
We need someone to update the wiki pages (I'm quite busy these days); currently you should refer to the manual built-in with LyX (examples/sweave.lyx), and a PDF version is here: https://github.com/downloads/yihui/lyx/sweave.pdf Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.na

2.0.2 and sweave

2011-12-04 Thread Jack Tanner
I'd like to get started with LyX and Sweave. There are a bunch of tutorials out there, some linked from the LyX wiki, some not. But I can't tell which are current and which aren't. I'm on LyX 2.0.2, R 2.14, Miktex 2.9, Windows 7 x64; could someone suggest the right tutorial or just post the steps h