I am getting started with the reproducible research tools in R, and I'm pretty excited about the prospects. Sweave/Knitr/Markdown, all that stuff is great. I use RStudio, and they have done a great job of integrating those tool, and I hear that StatET does a nice job putting all that together as well.
I don't write academic papers in LaTeX, and all the people I work with use Word, so I am very interested in an effective workflow to use ODFWeave to make documents.
My usual process is:
- Develop the code chunks in my IDE (RStudio, in my case)
- Go back and insert these into a ODT document and fill in the surrounding text.
- run ODFweave
My problem is that I get confused in tracking code chunks and putting them into the ODF document. Keeping the ODF document in sync as I create the code is annoying, so I'd rather wait and insert the code chunks by name.
So finally, here are my questions:
- What are people's suggestions for tracking code chunks or on how to optimize this workflow?
- Can anyone recommend tools or tips for keeping track of the code chunks you write?
Being a software geek and a data nerd, I naturally imagine a piece of software doing this for me. Like I'd have a database of code chunks, and when writing the ODF document I'd be able to click on a chunk to insert it into my ODF file.
- Has one anyone created this sort of thing?