Dynamic Documents with R and knitr

In the very beginning, I planned to write this book with Markdown, but laterI changed my mind and wrote it in LyX instead. For those who are stillinterested in the Markdown source, please see the markdowndirectory.

Now this book has been published by Chapman &Hall. You can also findit on Amazon. There is abook review published in the Journal ofStatistical Software, which may give you a better idea of this book than myown introduction.

The book source

Besides the old Markdown source which is really only an empty sketch, thisrepository also provides the real source files for the first three chaptersof the book, so that you can learn how the book was written and quickly getstarted with writing books using the LaTeX style by Chapman & Hall.

The main file is DDR-Yihui-Xie-Chap1-3.lyx; the Rnw fileDDR-Yihui-Xie-Chap1-3.Rnw was exported from LyX; krantz.cls is the LaTeXclass provided by Chapman & Hall, and I wrote a simple LyX layout filekrantz.layout; DDR-Yihui-Xie.bib contains some bibliography entries, andDDR-packages.bib is dynamically generated from knitr (see the lastchunk in the LyX or Rnw file).

The PDF of the first three chapters can be downloadedhere ⬇️ .

For Linux users, the minimal version of LyX for this book is 2.0.3 (as you canget from Debian). For Windows/Mac OS X users, just download the latest binariesfrom the LyX website. If you do not use LyX, you can simplyopen the Rnw file and start from there.

Be sure to read the session info in the preface because your R packages maynot be up-to-date to reproduce the PDF. Normally I use development versionsof my packages, because I often find little problems that I need to solvefor the book, and these changes will end up in the development versions.

Contact

GitHub issues (https://github.com/yihui/knitr-book/issues) is thepreferred way for feedbacks. You can also reach me by email if you reallywant:

echo oybuwycxy.trpb | tr bopcrbtucwxyc+ exmiaen@iyuih