More efficient R / Sweave / TeXShop work-flow?

Question

I\'ve now got everything to work properly on my Mac OS X 10.6 machine so that I can create decent looking LaTeX documents with Sweave that include snippets of R code, output, an

Answer 1

I use these (saved as sweave.engine and sweavebibtex.engine) for custom engines in texshop. I usually work up a code chunk in R, then copy the block into the rnw file I have open in texshop. I'd love a solution that lets me do syntax highlighting and spelling correction of R and tex in the same document (that isnt emacs).

#!/bin/bash
echo 'SWEAVE | PDFLATEX. Custom engine--Akasurak-16Nov2009'
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin
R CMD Sweave "$1"
pdflatex "${1%.*}"

and the second, for doing bibtex as well:

#!/bin/bash
date
before="$(date +%s)"
echo 'SWEAVE | PDFLATEX | BIBTEX | PDFLATEX | PDFLATEX. Custom engine--Akasurak-16Nov2009'
#Updated 20Jul2010 for auto including Sweave.sty


export PATH=$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin

R CMD Sweave "$1"
R CMD pdflatex "${1%.*}"
bibtex  "${1%.*}.aux"
R CMD pdflatex "${1%.*}"
R CMD pdflatex "${1%.*}"


after="$(date +%s)"
elapsed_seconds="$(expr $after - $before)"
date
echo Elapsed time '(m:s)': $(date -r $elapsed_seconds +%M:%S)

Can't say they are the best way of doing things, but they do work.