The SXMLDocs package

This is currently a very simple package that provides some literate programming tools for XML and S. It allows S users to write XML documents that annotate S code contained within <code> elements in the XML and to distribute these to others. These documents can then be source()d into an S session using xmlSource() and used directly. This is a convenient format for explaining code in sections to another S user by including text. Also, it is a useful way to communicate bug reports since the code can be run in steps.

Other tools like this include

Sweave in R,
Tony Rossini's literate programming tools for S using XML,
Vincent Carey's literate S
our (other more involved) literate tools in Omegahat using the XML and Sxslt packages and XSLT itself.
Rafael Sevilla's xml-lit
and, of course, noweb.

Download

SXMLDocs_0.2-0.tar.gz

Documentation

Examples: Some examples input files.

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@research.bell-labs.com>

Last modified: Tue Oct 29 13:33:59 UTC 2002