Some portions of the survival package have been written using the literate programming paradym. These are contained here, and have a .Rnw suffix. Long term, the plan is to have all of the code source here to maximize the documentation, and through it the reliability of the package. At this time the number of files here is very small, so I have broken one of the rules of archiving, "put only the oringinal source under version control"; the .R files that result from these source documents are also kept in ../../R. These files are NOT intended for processing by Sweave. The function of Sweave is to execute R fragments, interspersing code and results. The purpose of this material is to create the .R source code and a detailed latex commentary on that code. In particular, Sweave cannot reassemble a named chunk of code from scattered fragments. The latter is one of the main advantages of the noweb system: you can organise the presentation for optimal explanation rather than in exectuion order. The result file all.pdf is documentation for understanding the code, not how to use the survival functions for data analysis. For those who maintain the code it should be a big help, for everyone else I'd expect it to be boring. It would be nice if Rtangle could be used to extract the code since that would make the library self contained for compilation purposes. Que sera sera. The .Rnw suffix causes emacs work perfectly for either a noweb or Sweave target, however, which is very nice. Terry Therneau