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

[Simon Zehnder]

Hi Mike,

I found my way with this little blog: http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/editors/

The .Rnw files are created very well in a Latex editor. Everything else can be easily googled. The command via knitr::knit2pdf works very fine if you use the chunks. If you are trying to compile an Rtex file, this I do not know either (I like the symbols though in for example https://github.com/yihui/knitr-examples/blob/master/005-latex.Rtex). But the .Rnw files are compiled pretty nice in e.g. texmaker, as described in the blog. Use for example this source file: https://github.com/yihui/knitr/blob/master/inst/examples/knitr-minimal.Rnw


Hope this helps


Best

Simon





On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:52 PM, C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do you create a .Rnw file, in R or LaTex?  I don't think any
> tutorial mentions it.
> 
> btw, I am very new to the terms like markdown, so I don't understand
> "markdown to HTML".
> 
> I am reading here http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/KnitrHowto
> that you need to compile at terminal.  I do not know terminal, is
> there other ways?
> 
> Could you do a video on just "simple" R?  I have seen 3 videos on R
> Studio including yours.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
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