2nd Edition

Dynamic Documents with R and knitr

By Yihui Xie Copyright 2015
    294 Pages 70 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    294 Pages
    by Chapman & Hall

    294 Pages 70 B/W Illustrations
    by Chapman & Hall

    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.

    Introduction

    Reproducible Research
    Literature
    Good and Bad Practices
    Barriers

    A First Look
    Setup
    Minimal Examples
    Quick Reporting
    Extracting R Code

    Editors
    RStudio
    LYX
    Emacs/ESS
    Other Editors

    Document Formats
    Input Syntax
    Document Formats
    Output Renderers
    R Scripts

    Text Output
    Inline Output
    Chunk Output
    Tables
    Automatic Printing
    Themes

    Graphics
    Graphical Devices
    Plot Recording
    Plot Rearrangement
    Plot Size in Output
    Extra Output Options
    The tikz Device
    Figure Environment
    Figure Path

    Cache
    Implementation
    Write Cache
    When to Update Cache
    Side Effects
    Chunk Dependencies
    Load Cache Manually
    Other Options

    Cross Reference
    Chunk Reference
    Code Externalization
    Child Documents

    Hooks
    Chunk Hooks
    Examples

    Language Engines
    Design
    Languages and Tools
    Persistent Sessions

    Tricks and Solutions
    Chunk Options
    Package Options
    Typesetting
    Utilities
    Debugging
    Multilingual Support

    Publishing Reports
    RStudio
    Pandoc
    HTML5 Slides
    Jekyll
    WordPress

    R Markdown
    Overview
    Pandoc’s Markdown Extensions
    Output Formats
    Interactive Documents with Shiny
    Extending R Markdown v2
    Changes in R Markdown from v1 to v2

    Applications
    Homework
    Serve Dynamic Documents
    Web Site and Blogging
    Package Vignettes
    Books
    Literate Programming for R Packages

    Other Tools
    Sweave
    Other R Packages
    Python Packages
    More Tools

    Appendix: Internals

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    Yihui Xie is a software engineer at RStudio. He earned a PhD from the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. His research focuses on interactive statistical graphics and statistical computing. He is an active R user and the author of several award-winning R packages, such as animation, formatR, Rd2roxygen, and knitr. He is also the founder of "Capital of Statistics," a large online statistics community in China.

    "… a gold mine of ideas: things I had no idea knitr could do (integrate with different languages like Python), and tricks to get around some of the awkward things I needed to do (moving all the code to an appendix for tech-fearful readers). It also explains all the guts of the system and is especially informative about how knitr can cache results of time-intensive calculations, so that they do not have to be rerun each time you compile the document if the precedents have not changed. The book is well written …"
    MAA Reviews, December 2015

    Praise for the First Edition:
    "After reading Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, … I became a fan of this package and its flexibility. The book is written in a conversational style that gives a clear and practical introduction to knitr for both beginners and advanced users. … Compared with Sweave, knitr is more powerful. … Furthermore, knitr is more flexible than Sweave. … Most impressively, caching can be incorporated in a simple way by knitr. … The book is readable with a clear overall structure. … this book allows us to enhance our knowledge of knitr’s usage and quickly find what we want."
    The American Statistician, February 2015

    "The book provides a systematic description of the package [knitr], including its concepts, design principles, and philosophy. It also has many examples, well-thought-out advice, and useful tips and tricks. … The book is well written. It has introductory material useful for novices as well as advice for more seasoned users, all explained in conversational English without unnecessary technical jargon. … While I have been using Sweave and then knitr for several years, I still learned many new useful things from the book. … the book deserves a place on the bookshelves of both new and experienced R and TeX users."
    —Boris Veytsman, TUGboat, Volume 35, 2014

    "If you are looking to learn how to use knitr, this book is for you. There are a limited number of resources for learning knitr because the package is relatively new and the documentation produced by Xie is so good. … I think this book will continue to be the best resource about knitr …easy to understand … this is a great read and handy desk reference for the regular knitr user."
    Journal of Statistical Software, January 2014

    "Three recent books have significantly influenced how I use R in reproducible work: Dynamic Documents with R and knitr by Yihui Xie, Reproducible Research with R and RStudio by Christopher Gandrud, and Implementing Reproducible Research edited by Victoria Stodden, Friedrich Leisch, and Roger D. Peng … I recommend all three books to R users at any level. There really is something here for everyone."
    —Richard Layton, PhD, PE, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA