Sweave2knitr 0.1

Convert an Sweave document to work in knitr

Sweave2knitr is a simple Python script that helps to convert [Sweave](http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch/Sweave/) LaTeX documents to be instead compatible with Yihui Xie’s [knitr](http://yihui.name/knitr/) package. It is based on and inspired by Jeromy Anglim’s blog entry [ Converting Sweave LaTeX to knitr LaTeX: A case study ](http://jeromyanglim.blogspot.com/2012/06/converting-sweave-latex-to-knitr-latex.html).

Warning: This conversion is not an exact science. While this catches some of the most common issues faced when converting from Sweave to LaTeX, there are a virtually infinite number of special cases that will have to be handled. Furthermore, this is a very early version that has been tested on only a few documents. Try it on your own Sweave documents: contributions are strongly encouraged!

Installation

Install using

python setup.py build python setup.py install

You can also install it from the [Python Package Index](http://pypi.python.org/pypi) using:

easy_install Sweave2knitr

or

pip install Sweave2knitr

Once installed, you can run unit tests using

python tests/tests.py

Usage

If infile.Rnw is your Sweave LaTeX file, use

Sweave2knitr infile.Rnw outfile.nw

You can then use

Rscript -e “library(knitr); knit(‘outfile.nw’, ‘outfile.tex’)” pdflatex outfile.tex

To create the .tex file and turn it into a PDF.