yihui/knitr — pull request #905 by scottkosty (2014-11-30 02:35:10+00:00)
Title: is_lyx now works when lyx is run without GUI

To detect whether LyX is calling knitr, the environment variable
LYXSOCKET should not be checked because it is only set if LyX is
run with a GUI (a LyX server is not useful when there is no GUI).

It is useful to run LyX in the terminal (that is, no GUI) for the
following reasons:
- to have a quick way to convert .lyx files to .pdf
- to use the lyx command in a Makefile
- to run LyX through a server
- for continuous testing.

This commit is related to #809.