Book description
Quickly and Easily Write Dynamic Documents
Suitable for both beginners and advanced users, Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, Second Edition makes writing statistical reports easier by integrating computing directly with reporting. Reports range from homework, projects, exams, books, blogs, and web pages to virtually any documents related to statistical graphics, computing, and data analysis. The book covers basic applications for beginners while guiding power users in understanding the extensibility of the knitr package.
New to the Second Edition
- A new chapter that introduces R Markdown v2
- Changes that reflect improvements in the knitr package
- New sections on generating tables, defining custom printing methods for objects in code chunks, the C/Fortran engines, the Stan engine, running engines in a persistent session, and starting a local server to serve dynamic documents
Boost Your Productivity in Statistical Report Writing and Make Your Scientific Computing with R Reproducible
Like its highly praised predecessor, this edition shows you how to improve your efficiency in writing reports. The book takes you from program output to publication-quality reports, helping you fine-tune every aspect of your report.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Author
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reproducible Research
- 3 A First Look
- 4 Editors
- 5 Document Formats
- 6 Text Output
- 7 Graphics
- 8 Cache
- 9 Cross Reference
- 10 Hooks
- 11 Language Engines
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12 Tricks and Solutions
- 12.1 Chunk Options
- 12.2 Package Options
- 12.3 Typesetting
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12.4 Utilities
- 12.4.1 R Package Citation
- 12.4.2 Image URI
- 12.4.3 Upload Images
- 12.4.4 Compile Documents
- 12.4.5 Construct Code Chunks
- 12.4.6 Extract Source Code
- 12.4.7 Reproducible Simulation
- 12.4.8 R Documentation
- 12.4.9 Rst2pdf
- 12.4.10 Package Demos
- 12.4.11 Pretty Printing
- 12.4.12 A Macro Preprocessor
- 12.4.13 Exit Knitting Early
- 12.4.14 Literal knitr Source Code
- 12.4.15 Spell Checking
- 12.5 Debugging
- 12.6 Multilingual Support
- 13 Publishing Reports
- 14 R Markdown
- 15 Applications
- 16 Other Tools
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2017
- Publisher(s): Chapman and Hall/CRC
- ISBN: 9781315360706
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