Looking for knitr example for beginner (NO RStudio)

I recommend RStudio not because I want to promote it in any sense, but
because of the fact that it has the best support for Rnw/knitr at the
moment, and it will save you a lot of headache to get started. It
seems you just do not believe me, and insist on going through all the
low-level configurations as a newbie. That will lead to confusion by
definition. I do not know why you do not have _access_ to it; it is
free and open source, so everybody has access to it unless one does
not have the Internet connection.

I'm not the developer of TeXworks, so I have no control over what
TeXworks can support.

knitr and its website are open source; please feel free to improve
them if you find anything unclear:
http://yihui.name/en/2013/06/fix-typo-in-documentation/

Regards,
Yihui
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Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
Phone: 206-667-4385 Web: http://yihui.name
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle

Thanks, Simon.  I would never figured it out!

I apologize if I sound frustrated, because I am.

@package author: you have a great package, but I think a lot of the
directions are hand waving.  For the newbies, this leads to more
confusion.

@Berend: I am using OS X.

Mike