[bret.larget@wisc.edu: Re: Making teaching material, html, pdf or powerpoint]
Bret's comments prompted some thought, though I think a full answer depends on context. For example, Bret raises a point about what will be easy for students. I agree that installing TeX can be pretty painful, but was the OP about use by students or only about use by the teacher? To be a bit more specific about equations in HTML, you can get a few lines of code from the MathJax site that you add to the header of an HTML document. Then you can insert TeX into the document for any mathematics you want to include. There are some minor adjustments you have to make because the two languages have different syntax -- see the MathJax site. I create the equations in LyX so I do not even need to know TeX -- just install it. ----- Forwarded message from BRET R LARGET <bret.larget at wisc.edu> ----- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:15:58 +0000 From: BRET R LARGET <bret.larget at wisc.edu> To: Manuel Sp?nola <mspinola10 at gmail.com>, "r-sig-teaching at r-project.org" <r-sig-teaching at r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] Making teaching material, html, pdf or powerpoint I usually make HTML and post the notes and use the notes for lecture presentation. I scroll through the HTML rather than show static slides. HTML is better now than it used to be to show mathematical notation well. I used to use PDF. It is easier for students to knit a document into HTML than into PDF (because the latter requires installing LaTeX), so this is what I ask them to do. -Bret
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I am planning to make teaching material for data analysis in R. I am trying to decide which output will be better. Html, pdf or powepoint. I found that flexdashboard could have the potential to make the material in html output which could include interactive graphs and tables. Any insight on this? Best, -- *Manuel Sp?nola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservaci?n y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspinola at una.cr <mspinola at una.ac.cr> mspinola10 at gmail.com Tel?fono: (506) 8706 - 4662 Personal website: Lobito de r?o <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-teaching at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-teaching at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching ----- End forwarded message -----
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