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

[C W]

Actually, I see it at the bottom.  Sorry!

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:44 PM, C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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