[BlindRUG] a bandaide approach

[Godfrey, Jonathan]

Hello Jude,

Welcome to the group.

I'll keep my answers to the focus of the list , that being the questions related to R and how you might interact with it.

I am not a Linux user at present. I do know a few things about how my Linux using friends work but perhaps without the detail that you may need. I don't for example know what an org-mode table is, but pulling data into R might be as simple as saving your data into a simple text file and then reading it into an R session. 

I do know that org-mode does allow processing of R commands just like it does for other languages. You can for example switch processing of data among the languages that you know best, In particular, many people pre-process their data using Python.

Depending on your level of commitment to org-mode, you might also start to investigate working in Rmarkdown. I intend Rmarkdown to be a discussion topic in the very near future.

In brief, Rmarkdown is a variant of markdown which allows the user ot include R commands in code chunks that are then processed. The original Rmarkdown file is converted to a standard markdown file by including the R output (text and graphs) appropriately, and then converting to the type of preference. Options include HTML and pdf as well as MS Word and a bunch of slide presentation formats.

Cheers,
Jonathan





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From: BlindRUG [mailto:blindrug-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell via BlindRUG
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Subject: [BlindRUG] a bandaide approach

I found http://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/
to be quick to learn and was able to get useful statistics from the package.  I use archlinux with espeak and speakup to do what I do in a linux command line environment.
I had got emacs-orgmode mostly working but never did manage to get statistics calculated on an org table I have so went looking and found datamash.
Maybe this could use some more statistics, but if so it's open source software.

I need to find out if R can inhale org-mode tables and produce some results before I go much further with it.  Needless to say for those with experience with Linux, my favorite editor is not vim since org-mode doesn't come packaged with a current version of vim but emacs.
I had read the org manual and calc manuals and I think because I read both of those manuals I wasn't successful in figuring out how to get org-mode calculating for me.
Many more statistics production worked examples would be hugely helpful in this respect for org-mode.



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