[R] Problem: Sweave and math environments

[David Scott]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 11/4/2008 9:15 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote:
>> I'm sure there are a variety of ways around this. My chosen solution
>> is to replace
>> 
>> mydata$somevar
>> with
>> mydata[, "somevar"]
>> 
>> Sarah
>> 
>
> You should almost never need to modify valid R code to work with Sweave. 
> (There are a few exceptions:  code that illustrates errors, or code that 
> requires interaction with a user, etc.)
>
> There's nothing wrong with including mydata$somevar in an Sweave code chunk.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

There is nonetheless a point to what she is suggesting. In my experience 
the $ tends to confuse the editor so the highlighting gets confused 
amongst other things

David Scott

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