28.32 Knitr Resources

We list below other resources that augment the material we have presented in this chapter.

Xie (2014) delves much further into knitr and LaTeX and other document formats supported by knitr.
Gandrud (2014) delves not only into knitr, LaTeX, R and RStudio, but also the suite of tools available for the professional data scientist, including utilities such as make, git, and shell.
http://yihui.name/knitr/ is knitr’s home. This includes documentation on knitr (Xie 2024) and useful discussion forums.
The knitr (Xie 2024) author’s presentation on knitr (Xie 2024) http://yihui.name/slides/2012-knitr-RStudio.html. The presentation provides a basic introduction to knitr (Xie 2024).
http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/~aedin/courses/ReproducibleResearch/ReproducibleResearch.pdf This lecture provides some insights into literate programming in R.
LaTeX supports many characters and symbols but finding the right incantation is difficult. This web site, http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html, does a great job. Draw the character you want and it will show you how to get it .

Gandrud, Christopher. 2014. Repreoducible Research with R and RStdio. The R Series. CRC Press.

Xie, Yihui. 2014. Dynamic Documents with R and Knitr. The R Series. CRC Press.

———. 2024. Knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in r. https://yihui.org/knitr/.

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