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 <xieyi...@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 <tmrs...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.