Escape the Land of LaTeX/Word for Statistical Reporting: The Ecosystem of R Markdown

Yihui Xie, RStudio Inc

March 13, 2015 @ Wright State University

About me

I know you click, click, copy and paste

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)

Basic idea

knitr

Two extremes of documentation languages

\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}
# 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.

Or a graphical comparison

Is Markdown too simple?

Possibilities with R Markdown

Thanks!