[R-sig-teaching] [bret.larget maybe from wisc.edu: Re: Making teaching material, html, pdf or powerpoint]

[User Hayden]

Bret's comments prompted some thought, though I think a full answer
depends on context.  For example, Bret raises a point about what will
be easy for students.  I agree that installing TeX can be pretty
painful, but was the OP about use by students or only about use by the
teacher?

To be a bit more specific about equations in HTML, you can get a few
lines of code from the MathJax site that you add to the header of an
HTML document.  Then you can insert TeX into the document for any
mathematics you want to include.  There are some minor adjustments you
have to make because the two languages have different syntax -- see
the MathJax site. I create the equations in LyX so I do not even need
to know TeX -- just install it.  


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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:15:58 +0000
From: BRET R LARGET <bret.larget using wisc.edu>
To: Manuel Sp?nola <mspinola10 using gmail.com>, "r-sig-teaching using r-project.org"
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Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching]  Making teaching material, html, pdf or
	powerpoint

I usually make HTML and post the notes and use the notes for lecture presentation. I scroll through the HTML rather than show static slides. HTML is better now than it used to be to show mathematical notation well. I used to use PDF. It is easier for students to knit a document into HTML than into PDF (because the latter requires installing LaTeX), so this is what I ask them to do.

-Bret

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Subject: [R-sig-teaching] Making teaching material, html, pdf or powerpoint

I am planning to make teaching material for data analysis in R.  I am
trying to decide which output will be better. Html, pdf or powepoint.

I found that flexdashboard could have the potential to make the material in
html output which could include interactive graphs and tables.

Any insight on this?

Best,

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