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 either Aquamacs or Eclipse to do the editing of the .Rnw file, then I use the following shell function to compile & view it:

sweaveCache () {
  Rscript -e "library(cacheSweave); setCacheDir(getwd()); 
    Sweave('$1.Rnw', driver = cacheSweaveDriver)" && 
  pdflatex --shell-escape $1.tex && 
  open $1.pdf
}

Notice that I'm using the cacheSweave driver, which helps avoid constantly re-executing code sections that take a long time to run.

BTW, I'm also trying to switch over to Babel instead of Sweave; not sure which I'll end up using more often, but there are definitely aspects of Babel that I like.