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 <szehn...@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 <tmrs...@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 <x...@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 <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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
