Overview ========

'research_tools' is my (John Horton's) software tools for managing papers. It is distributed under the GNU public license. It's basic purpose is to automate many of the tedious parts of writing papers and making it easier to start new projects with everything needed.

What it does

There are two main components:

create_project.py - This python script creates a new project by: a) creates complete file structure b) creates stub files for R code, LaTeX, BibTex etc. using templates.py c) creates a local "make.py" file for building the paper

create_paper.py - This orchestrates the building on the paper---it manages the running of SQL scripts, R scripts, latex/bibtex etc.

How it works

TK.

To Do

1. [DONE] Add the option of running sed on all tex files before combination
2. [DONE] Add ability to do a make-like sequencing of R files
3. [DONE] Do something smarter with config information
4. Make the HTML data view optional
5. [DONE] Make a "where is what?" view of the source document as HTML
6. Add WSD integration
7. Add HTML export
8. Turn Bibtex file into HTML file w/ links
9. Make the HTML CSV tables sortable
10. Generate HTML / ODF / PS output versions
11. Add arxiv/ssrn bundler
12. add google docs export options
13. Add a reasonable 'gitignore' to the templates
14. Show several table examples
15. Investigate virtualenv-like solutions

BUGS