In this session, I will discuss dynamic report generation using Knitr (Sweave). Knitr is an R package that enables R code integration into various markup languages such as LaTeX, HTML, Markdown etc. It can be used for writing research papers, theses, or even producing web-pages for presenting results. Knitr is valuable in scientific circles for several reasons. Beside allowing reports to be flexible and modified automatically, Knitr makes reproducible research simpler than manual approaches. When used properly, Knitr describes the steps of an experiment explicitly, and these steps are self-documented (by using R code). Knitr itself is not complicated, however it does require some knowledge of the R language.

This session will be divided in two parts. In first part I will give a brief background to Knitr. I will use second part of the talk to demonstrate several examples on how to use Knitr to make a (dynamic) research paper.

Date: 17/03/2017
Time: 16:00
Location: LB252