[R] Looking for knitr example for beginner (NO RStudio)

[Yihui Xie]

I'm not sure what your question really is. You do not have to use
RStudio, but it will be much easier to get started with RStudio,
because it does a lot of automatic conversion behind the scenes (e.g.
tex to PDF, markdown to HTML, ...). If you want a "pure" solution
without any text editor support, the answer is

library(knitr)
knit('your_input_file')

For example, knit('foo.Rnw') gives you foo.tex; if you are familiar
with LaTeX, you can mess with this foo.tex now (outside of R).

Minimal examples for different document formats are at
http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/minimal/ (you must have read this page),
and more examples at https://github.com/yihui/knitr-examples

If you are asking about the internals of knitr, "Luke, use the
source": https://github.com/yihui/knitr Or for a more comprehensive
introduction, see http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781482203530

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
Phone: 206-667-4385 Web: http://yihui.name
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:13 AM, C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am using package knitr, FIRST TIME.  I don't have access to RStudio.
>
> Read through Yihui's page, didn't find it helpful.  Stuck on terms
> Rnw, GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown).  Never used Sweave, so the
> reference is not helping.
>
> Is there a simple step-by-step example WITHOUT RStudio?
>
> My question:
> What is the procedure?  The documentation explains the functions, but
> does not say how to operate between R and LaTex.
>
> Mike
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.