[R] Spellchecking Sweave documents

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/12/2007 11:11 AM, Michael Hoffman wrote:
> I have been using Aspell on a Linux system, but it doesn't
> understand the noweb chunks, which I'd rather it not spellcheck. I
> can run it on the generated .tex files, but then changes I make
> during the spellcheck will not be propagated back to the original
> source. Any suggestions on how to spellcheck Sweave documents?

If you want the concordance between the lines in the original file and 
those in the .tex file, you can get it (with the concordance=TRUE Sweave 
option).  Then it would be theoretically possible to convert reports 
about errors in the .tex into reports about the .Rnw.  I don't know if 
Aspell provides information in a form where you could actually make use 
of this, but if so, it might be a nice contribution to do so.

(For sample code decoding the concordance, see my patchDVI package:  it 
converts source links in .dvi files to point to the .Rnw instead of the 
.tex file.)

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> I see from a search that some people seem to be trying Flyspell on 
> Emacs. I'd rather have a solution that runs outside of Emacs, but if 
> anyone is using Flyspell successfully, I'd love to know of their 
> experiences.
> 
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