Literate Programming in R: Glossary

Key Points

Documenting data manipulation
  • Keep raw data read only.

  • Manipulate data in a reproducible manner

Literate programming
  • RMarkdown and knitr are powerful tools.

  • Output can be rendered in many formats.

  • You don’t need to know HTML!

Explore a working knitr document
  • RMarkdown and knitr are powerful tools.

  • It all comes together very nicely

Adding citations to your R Markdown manuscript
Exploring a complete knitr document
  • LaTeX allows us to apply complex document formatting

  • Updating a document to accommodate data or code changes or is trivial

Glossary

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