Escape the Land of LaTeX/Word for Statistical Reporting: The Ecosystem of R Markdown
Yihui Xie, RStudio Inc
March 13, 2015 @ Wright State University
But imagine you hear these words after you finished a project
Please do that again! (sorry we made a mistake in the data, want to change a parameter, and yada yada)
Two extremes of documentation languages
- LaTeX: precise control, full complexity, horrible readability
\section{Introduction}
We did a \emph{cool} study, and our main findings:
\begin{enumerate}
\item You can never remember how to escape backslashes.
\item A dollar sign is \$, an ampersand \&, and a \textbackslash{}.
\item How about ~? Use $\sim$.
\end{enumerate}
- Markdown: simple, simple, simple
# Introduction
We did a _cool_ study, and our main findings:
1. You do not need to remember a lot of rules.
2. A dollar sign is $, an ampersand is &, and a backslash \.
3. A tilde is ~.
Write content instead of markup languages.
