Looking for knitr example for beginner (NO RStudio)

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/85154/knitr-with-texworks/85165#85165

In step 3: "add the executable file (step 3)".

What is the executable file?  Locate package knitr directory path in R?

Mike

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:56 PM, C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:

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