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

[C W]

Hi Simon,
I am on OS X Lion, I have TeXworks, I don't have knitr as an option.

How do I install that into TeXworks?  Seems like I have to something
in terminal?

Mike

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Simon Zehnder <szehnder at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 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
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> Hope this helps
>
>
> Best
>
> Simon
>
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> 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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