This release features support for RMarkdown. You can open an existing RMarkdown document as a stencil and either edit it in the browser or your favourite text editor. Stencila renders both block and inline code chunks and handles the two-way conversion between the in-browser and in-memory stencil and the on-disk RMarkdown. Not all RMarkdown code chunk options have been implemented (e.g. results=markup, cache=TRUE are not) and we'll wait on feedback to prioritise which of those should be implemented first. As always, ideas and bug reports are welcome!
This is the first of several forthcoming releases which will focus on inter-operability between Stencila and other formats for reproducible data-driven documents. We're focusing on this now (despite the fact that the frontend is still buggy and OS support is woeful) because we want to ensure, for the long term, that the Stencila API is able to work with other platforms. That's what a 0.x release series is about rapid iteration on the API before locking down a 1.0.0 release with a stable API that others rely upon.
As part of this more general aim of cross-platform compatibility, this release also includes some behind the scenes functionality:
- Initial implementation of the WAMP protocol's
SUBSCRIBE,SUBSCRIBEDandEVENTmessages to allow for automatic updates to the user interface when a document changes. - Initial implementation of a file watcher to allow monitoring, and subsequent automatic updating,of documents, when on-disk changes are made.