Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0809261415280.6209@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2008-09-26T13:20:12Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: include scripts into main file (the LaTeX way)
In-Reply-To: <48DCDA46.1020109@uib.no>
This is hardly original to LaTeX (in fact even TeX has a way), and most
programming languages have such a mechanism (e.g. #include in C).
R's nearest equivalent is source(), but that does not have a mechanism
like TEXINPUTS to search for files (but then neither does MikTeX). I
believe I have seen a search implementation for source(), but R's package
mechanism makes it much less necessary.
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Michael Schulte wrote:
> Dear R-people,
>
> I want to use an idea from LaTeX in the work flow with R.
> It is possible in LaTeX to have a main file from which other files are called
> (ie included).
> So for example if you have book, the main index file would call each chapter
> separately.
Whereas in R you have functions and packages to encapsulate useful pieces
of code.
> Is there something comparable in R that follows the above 'include' idea from
> LaTeX?
> A main file that calls parts of an analysis or data preparation separately.
>
> Thanks!
> Michael
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